Quotes & Sayings About Overbearing Mothers

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter. — Tarryn Fisher

Construction of the socialist future. No, thank you. In any case, if you — Lucy Beckett

A little man often cast a long shadow. — G. M. Trevelyan

The weight of his fingers on mine, like a bird landing on a branch. It was the drop of a match. I did not see that we were surrounded by tinder until I felt it burst into flames. — Hannah Kent

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation — George Bernard Shaw

Some days I hated my life. Turning forty, pre-menopausal migraines, single, gaining ten pounds in six months, not to mention having three, sometimes overbearing mothers, and an editor with no compassion.
On the other hand, I had Kline, sort of, and there was my career, or what was left of it. I had a dog that idolized me, even if no one else did, and a house of my own. Those pluses should sustain me through my crises. So now, I would go home and write. It's what I do. -- Lilly Millenovanovich — Kathryn Long

When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend. — Pamela Druckerman

A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other. — Ilya Ehrenburg

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. — Karl Lagerfeld

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed. — Zhuangzi

She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would then never come to stay. I loved her dearly, but in small doses. — Jasper Fforde

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. — Nicholas Sparks

I don't own you, you just belong to me. — Pushpa Rana

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. — Nick Cave

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough. — Dick Gregory

It was an enchanted place, he said, designed to keep kids safe from the monsters, on an island where the sun shined every day and nobody ever got sick or died. — Ransom Riggs