Top 1200 Bad Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

I wanted to bleach my skin so bad, but my sister always discouraged me. She'd say, 'This is a bad thing. Don't try it.'

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

'Mom' is an emotional family drama that's also thrilling. It's the story about a mother and a daughter, their emotions, and how their lives change. Being a mother myself helped me understand those emotions better.

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

I'm human. I have bad games, I have bad moments, but that's me. I cannot stay on the floor, knocked out. I have to keep going.

When sex is good theres nothing better, when its bad its not bad.

Hillary Clinton's got bad judgment, and honestly, so bad that she should never be president of the United States.

There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

I don't think I'm a bad player, but I've been playing bad.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

My mother passed away young - she died from ovarian cancer at just 54 years old. Her sacrifices for my sisters and I evoke a tribute in her honor each and every Mother's Day.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

You can have a bad day but that does not make you a bad team.

The whole point of remaining on cable is to remain true to who I am. That's a bad, bad girl that got a big job.

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.