The Bloody Chamber Mother Quotes & Sayings

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away. — George Herbert

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing. — Tyler Perry

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town ... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety. — Henry David Thoreau

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. — Christina Aguilera

Writing is a very calming thing for me. — Carrie Fisher

Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs. — Eric Topol

Key to more success is a clean heart and a clean face. — DJ Khaled

With each passing month, I was introduced to other aspects of a new and pleasant world. Yet, though most of my days were spent in happy pursuit, always, underlying, was the tenuous feeling of an uncertain future. — Kathleen Grissom

Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either. — Michael Buckley

There may be losses too great to understand
That rove after you and
faint and terrible
rip unknown through your hand. — William Stafford

The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed. — Victor LaValle