Alienation From Mother Quotes & Sayings

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft. — Herbert Gold

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. — Joseph Addison

Darlin' ... I know what you look like when you've been kissed. — Lisa Kleypas

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening. — Sharon Salzberg

The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination. — David Bergen

...the beginning is where the end gets born. — Catherynne M Valente

Life was brutal for her. She hated the heat and the dust - the lack of friendship and lack of respect from other women
who knew she was a Christian. She hated the monster my father had become. — Brian Arthur Levene

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down. — Mitch Hedberg

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it. — Gary Shteyngart

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr. — Philip Larkin

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. — Irving Layton

I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three. — Jack Palance

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. — Jack Kerouac

but the African has not yet endured the utter alienation of himself from his people and his past. His mother did not sing "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," and he has not, all his life long, ached for acceptance in a culture which pronounced straight hair and white skin the only acceptable beauty. They face each other, the Negro and the African, over a gulf of three hundred years - an alienation too vast to be conquered in an evening's good-will — James Baldwin

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that. — Eric Fischl