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Quotes About Mother

My mother had always been the point that I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well.
~ Sarah Dessen
She makes tea by hand. Nettles, slippery elm, turmeric, cinnamon - my mother is a recipe for warm throats and belly laughs. Once she fell off a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched her fall.
~ Sarah Kay
Suddenly the light came on at the back of her parents' house, flooding the yard. "Is there somebody out there? Amy, is that you?" her mother called. "No. Tell me this isn't happening." Quinn rested his forehead against hers. "Has she got a wiretap on you or something? I swear, she's like a walking hard-on detector.
~ Sarah Mayberry
Well, darling, you can't eat principles,' her mother said when she complained about this, 'but you can certainly dine out on the memory of them, so good for you.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
He knew he would think better clearer thoughts after bathing in the sea. His mother had believed in the good effects of bathing, but she had died so young.
~ Saul Bellow
The earth was a grave: our life was lent to it by its elements and had to be returned: a time came when the simple elements seemed to long for release from the complicated forms of life, when every element of every cell said, Enough! The planet was our mother and our burial ground. No wonder the human spirit wished to leave. Leave this prolific belly. Leave also this great tomb. Passion for the infinite caused by the terror, by timor mortis, needed material appeasement.
~ Saul Bellow
Well, you are a privileged character. You're the only man living whose mother lost her mind and died.
~ Saul Bellow
What makes the new ark holy? The old ark contained the word of God written in stone; Mary contained in her womb the Word of God Who became man and dwelt among us. The ark contained manna; Mary contained the living bread come down from heaven. The ark contained the rod of the high priest Aaron; Mary's womb contained the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ. In the heavenly temple, the Word of God is Jesus, and the ark in whom he resides is Mary, His mother.
~ Scott Hahn
The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.
~ Scott Heim
What Kate Bush is is simple: She is a classy and elegant Woman who offers us a chance to be more understanding of what might be happening in the mind of someone other than ourselves. Nurturing, insightful, graceful, and wise; you could do no better than listening to her perspective. If Modern Music has an aristocracy, Kate Bush is much more than The Queen. Kate Bush is the archetypal Mother.
~ Scott Heim
The modest truth I speak to thee. If Man, that microcosmic fool, can see Himself a whole so frequently, Part of the Part am I, once All, in primal Night,— Part of the Darkness which brought forth the Light, The haughty Light, which now disputes the space, And claims of Mother Night her ancient place.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It didn't even help that I had a man watching the house.I suppose he can be forgiven for not thinking Mary Pearson could be a threat." "I knew about him," Rebecca replied. "I found him hiding in the garden this morning. I took him some cookies." Rupert laughed. "Did you? How embarrassing for him, but that was probably my mother's spy.Mine would have been better hidden!
~ Johanna Lindsey
Was her mother all right? Free? In
~ Johanna Lindsey
Amidst your Ardor for Greek and Latin I hope you will not forget your mother Tongue. Read Somewhat in the English Poets every day. . . . You will never be alone, with a Poet in your Poket. You will never have an idle Hour.
~ John Adams
We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.
~ John Armstrong
I gave up drinking, and the next time I saw Bonny at a party, she was mad at me about that too, and went off and made out all night with Chip Neminech, the tackle who demonstrated that not only is there no I in team, there's no Q, either. I suppose, given that my mother was a girl, I shouldn't have been surprised that some of them could get pretty weird.
~ John Barnes
My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
~ John Barrymore
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
~ John Berryman
England is the mother of Parliaments.
~ John Bright
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
~ John Brown
The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.
~ John Calvin
The church is, as Paul declares, founded on the doctrine of Apostles and Prophets [Eph 2:2]; but these men [of the Roman Catholic Church] speak as if they imagined that the mother owed her birth to the daughter.
~ John Calvin
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
~ John Cleese