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Quotes About Mother

KeÅŸke gençken annemi dinleseydim diyorum.' 'Neden, ne derdi sana?' 'Bilmem, hiç dinlemedim ki.
~ Douglas Adams
They ate so much food out of the can, the jar, the tinfoil, the box, that the youngest thought her mother's name was Sara Lee.
~ Douglas Clegg
Mommy loves me I know. Mommy loves me I know. I know Mommy loves me. I am scared of her. A
~ Douglas Clegg
What? This cleric wants to give Jennie religious instruction? How peverse!" I explained that he was really a harmless old man who Jennie was quite fond of. Dr. Prentiss found the whole idea diabolical. It would ruin her experiment! Well, I thought about that for all of two seconds and decided that what was right for Jennie was not necessarily right for Dr. Prentiss and her experiments. There are times, you know, when a mother simply has to do what she thinks is right.
~ Douglas Preston
I feel grief at the waste of myself in those years, anger at the mutilation and manipulation of the relationship between mother and child, which is the great original source and experience of love.
~ Adrienne Rich
If he is to know 'his' children, he must have control over their reproduction, which means he musut possess their mother exclusively...it cuts back to the male need to say: 'I, too, have the power of procreation--these are my seed, my own begotten children, my proof of elemental power.' In addition, of course, the children are the future receivers of the patrimony.
~ Adrienne Rich
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
~ Aeschylus
Night, o my mother, from whose womb I took my being.
~ Aeschylus
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
~ Aeschylus
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~ Aeschylus
The German pilot had come up and was standing by smiling as Mr. Parker Pyne finished answering a long interrogation which he had not understood. "What have I said?" he asked of the German "That your father's Christian name is Tourist, that your profession is Charles, that the maiden name of your mother is Baghdad, and that you have come from Harriet.
~ Agath Christie
I don't like the idea of your being a governess at the beck and call of tyrannical mother's and their tiresome brats.
~ Agatha Christie
What an extraordinary coincidence." "How—a coincidence?" "That my mother should have made a will on the very day of her death!
~ Agatha Christie
I remember my dear mother teaching me that a gentlewoman should always be able to control herself in public, however much she may give way in private.
~ Agatha Christie
VISEZ CA MAMA MOARE! IMI LASA O CUTIE CU BATAILE INIMII EI.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
Mama o sa gaseasca pe cineva care o sa scrie o carte despre povestea vietii noastre. O sa se numeasca USA DE FIER SI USA SPRE LIBERTATE.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
~ Agnes Smedley
Palestinian weddings are celebrated over coffee, but when a young man is killed his mother is held up over his grave. 'Trill out your zaghrouda [ululation], his friends say, the shabab who might die tomorrow. A mother says to me: 'Our joy-cries now only ring out in the face of death. Our world is upside down.'" Under the Gun, A Palestinian Journey - MEZZATERRA: FRAGMENTS FROM THE COMMON GROUND
~ Ahdaf Soueif
When I arrived there, looking like a mad scientist had tried to flay me open like a tiny Frankenstein, my mother freaked out in appropriate fashion.
~ Aisha Tyler
Years later when I read the historical novelist Yamamoto Shugoro's Nihon fudoki [An Account of the Duties of Japanese Women], I recognized my mother in these impossibly heroic creatures, and I was deeply moved.)
~ Akira Kurosawa
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
~ Al Lewis
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
~ Al Pacino
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
~ Al Pacino
Cubs are super cute, but you do not want to come between a cub and it's mother. Momma Bear will wreck you.
~ Alan Gratz