Quotes About Mother
His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing, said Mother Wolf quietly. He has been lame in one foot from his birth. That is why he has only killed cattle. Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry with him, and he has come here to make our villagers angry. They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. Indeed, we are very grateful to Shere Khan!
~ Rudyard Kipling
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The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a
~ Rudyard Kipling
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One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!
~ Rudyard Kipling
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mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying, Here's a dead mongoose.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of cure.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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Later that evening, they reconstructed Kenji's poem, but Benny never touched the magnets again or made another poem with them, and for a while, the raggedy constellation of words remained frozen. My abundant woman mother goddess love r we are symphony together I am mad for you
~ Ruth Ozeki
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Mother nature is a fickle and forgetful bitch, she snapped. She needs a helping hand and I am trying to hurry her along for their sake.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
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You observe … that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue.
~ Salman Rushdie
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My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.
~ Salman Rushdie
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His beard was thick and red—and annoyed his mother, who said only Hajis, men who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, should grow red beards. His hair, however, was rather darker. His sky-eyes you know about. Ingrid had said, "They went mad with the colors when they made your face.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Once, I belonged to the future. The beloved future of my beloved mother, that was what counted; the present was a means, and the past no more than a dull shard of pottery, a bottle dug up by my father on the beach. Now, however, I belong to yesterday. Is that a line from a song? I forget. Is it?
~ Salman Rushdie
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Some echo, no doubt, of the great silence with which her own mother had tormented Aadam Aziz lingered in her ears—because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound
~ Salman Rushdie
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You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
~ Lori Borgman
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I always look to my mom for strength and courage when I need it.
~ Dinah-Jane Hansen
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
~ Alice Walker
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My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .
~ Edmund Hillary
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Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain.
~ Akansh Malik
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
~ Samuel Smiles
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As usual, the oldest women were the most decorated, and the ugliest the most conspicuous. If there was a beautiful lily, or a sweet rose, you had to search for it, concealed in some corner behind a mother with a turban, or an aunt with a bird of paradise.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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One could guess that there was the delicate forethought of a mother behind this choice of the pavillon for Albert: while not wanting to be separated from her son, she nevertheless realized that a young man of the viscount's age needed all his freedom. On the other hand, it must be said that one could also recognize in this the intelligent egoism of the young man, the son of wealthy parents, who enjoyed the benefits of a free and idle life, which was gilded for him like a birdcage.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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When you have lost your mother you have lost the world.
~ Alice Hoffman
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But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face, how she was a ferryboat captain's daughter who believed that people could fly.
~ Alice Hoffman
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