Quotes About Mother

Summer 2161: Brown, eleven, enrolled in Camp Longhorn by father over strenuous objections of mother. Typical outdoor summer camp in hill country of Texas

She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's why wolves always win. Because the rest of us mind our manners and get devoured for our efforts.

Pockets he wants! Let his mother send cloth for pockets and he'll get them. There's a fine how-do-you-do! Pockets!

I don't know why, but in each mother there seems to be some sort of hidden force. It gives her the mad desire to see her daughter engaged the minute she outgrows her baby clothes.

But it's as my mother, bless her, says: When a madman breaks a window, it's never his own….

You know what a clever woman my mother is. "What good," she says to me, "are all his promises of tablecloths and handkerchiefs when he should be sending you cash? The Angel of Death doesn't wait for a man to buy his shrouds…

Stay at home," says my mother, "and you won't wear out your boots!

But you know what my mother says: "With the right kind of luck you can break your nose falling on grass …

A drunk grows sober before a fool grows wise," says my mother, more health to her.

As my mother, God bless her, would say, "Bring the bread and I'll find the cutting knife …

My mother spoke about being a widow with two sons, one swimming in chicken fat and the other the poor little fellow sitting next to her.

I should have listened to my mother when she said, "Never throw your luck out with the dish-water …

Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, 'Ma fia! Ma fia!

Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.

The process of repression had attacked almost all the components of his Oedipus complex—both his hostile and his tender impulses towards his father and his tender impulses towards his mother.

Kristin held the child while the young mother went to get a drink of local ale.

A man's heart is the first thing to quicken in his mother's womb, and the last to grow still in him. But in him now it sure must soon some to rest.

Goya's full motto for his etching is, 'Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders.

It was a lovely autumn day with a blue sky: I made my way through a lead-coloured world, and I realized that my mother's accident was affecting me far more than I had thought it would. I could not really see why. It had wrenched her out of the framework, the role, the set of images in which I had imprisoned her: I recognized her in this patient in bed, but I did not recognize either the pity or the kind of disturbance that she aroused in me.

any reproach made by my mother, and even her slightest frown was a threat to my security: without her approval, I no longer felt I had any right to live.

Su desnudez ya no me incomodaba: ya no se trataba de mi madre sino de un pobre cuerpo atormentado.

Para mí, mi madre siempre había existido y nunca había pensado seriamente que la vería desaparecer un día cercano. Su fin se situaba, como su nacimiento, en un tiempo mítico. Cuando yo me decía: tiene edad de morir, eran palabras vacías, como tantas otras. Por primera vez percibía en mi madre un cadáver en cierne.

Religion could do no more for my mother than the hope of posthumous success could do for me. Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Pour moi, ma mère avait toujours existé et je n'avais jamais sérieusement pensé que je la verrais disparaître un jour, bientôt. Sa fin se situait, comme sa naissance, dans un temps mystique. Quand je me disais : elle a l'âge de mourir, c'étaient des mots vides, comme tant de mots. Pour la première fois, j'apercevais en elle un cadavre en sursis.