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Quotes About Mother

My mother had to stop me reading to make me go and get some fresh air. I used to get so annoyed. She actually had to sit on my book because, otherwise, I would find it.
~ Michelle Paver
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
~ Oriana Fallaci
My mother taught us all to bake. It literally calmed us down, and she was able to get rid of all her frustrations.
~ Keala Settle
My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.
~ Eddie the Eagle
Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
In those days the typical Hollywood mother ran around looking like Eleanor Roosevelt, wearing a hat with a feather in it to attract attention. I never wore a hat and I never looked like Eleanor Roosevelt.
~ Florence Aadland
That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities - even merely with the velvet. He added: 'Your mother works you very hard.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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~ Ford Madox Ford
The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's lost my name, but the occasion of my presence begs more. Who is my mother now I am unspoken for?
~ Forrest Gander
and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mrs. Craven was a very lovely young lady, he had gone on rather hesitatingly. An' mother she thinks maybe she's about Misselthwaite many a time lookin' after Mester Colin, same as all mothers do when they're took out o' th' world. They have to come back, tha' sees. Happen she's been in the garden an' happen it was her set us to work, an' told us to bring him here. Mary
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She is my mother," said Colin complainingly. "I don't see why she died. Sometimes I hate her for doing it.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
who had lost her mother
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
My mother said, kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone
~ Francesca Lia Block
Maybe one night I'll be asleep and I'll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don't try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don't be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you.
~ Francesca Lia Block
of Ludovico Szforza] He was become immoderately vain, and little considering the Inconstancy of Human Affairs, was wont to say 'He was the Son of Fortune and could manage his Mother as he pleased.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
And her mother had only made it worse by filling up every spare minute with her own job and part-time night school.
~ Francine Pascal
Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!
~ Francine Pascal
what-ifs went around and around in her head. What if Mama
~ Francine Rivers
I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughter's dreams.
~ Francine Rivers
Opening her eyes, she looked up at him and laughed. Look at us, quoting Scripture. Matthias loved the warmth in her eyes. My father was a preacher, but it was my mother who taught me the Bible. He tucked the strand of hair behind her ear. Never underestimate the importance of the woman who rocks the cradle.
~ Francine Rivers
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
~ Francis Spufford