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Quotes About Mother

Yes, yes. Stalk all you want. There was no way he would be discussing any kind of fraternization in front of his mother and stepfather. She'd outmaneuvered him. For some odd reason, it made her feel ridiculously accomplished.
~ Ilona Andrews
An Rh negative mother's blood is said to be "sensitized" when this process has taken place. Procedures such as amniocentesis, aggressive external version, and episiotomy increase the chances of sensitization.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Hun likte å le, og hun syntes synd på folk - Dickens-siden ved deg, vesle mor, pleide han å si.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.
~ Iris Murdoch
Every man is betrayed by his mother.
~ Iris Murdoch
Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.
~ Irvine Welsh
Mother, where did you find the courage?' …' Courage, Johnny? I don't know. We just do blindly the thing we think is right...What was it that moved me: love? Duty? Ambition? All three. Now I have my reward in full measure.' -p. Abigail to Johnny, Those Who Love, p. 564
~ Irving Stone
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
~ Isabel Allende
Por las tardes salía de la mano de mi madre a ver la puesta de sol desde las rocas. Esperábamos para formular un deseo, atentas al último rayo verde que surgía como una llamita en el instante preciso en que el sol desaparecía en el horizonte.
~ Isabel Allende
My excesses are different but, like Julia, I will not give them up. My mother used to say that the only regrets in our old age are the sins we didn't commit and the things we didn't buy.
~ Isabel Allende
My mother used to say that the only regrets in our old age are the sins we didn't commit and the things we didn't buy.
~ Isabel Allende
Jaime vio a su madre avanzar por el corredor, descalza, con el pelo suelto en la espalda, arropada con su bata blanca y notó que no era alta y fuerte como la había visto en su infancia.
~ Isabel Allende
Me gustaría creer que el espíritu de mi madre me cuida, pero esas son niñerías.
~ Isabel Allende
Usted ha cambiado mucho, mamá —observó Blanca. —No soy yo, hija. Es el mundo que ha cambiado —respondió Clara.
~ Isabel Allende
IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT YEAR I had a spectacular dream, and I wrote it down to tell my mother; we always did that, even though there's nothing as boring as listening to other people's dreams. That's
~ Isabel Allende
La curiosidad es la madre de todos los pecados, pero también de todas las ciencias.
~ Isabel Allende
Soy impaciente; ahora comprendo que pretendía inyectarles feminismo a mi madre contra su voluntad, sin tener en cuenta que ella venía de otra época.
~ Isabel Allende
A caution to aspiring writers: not everything you write is worth keeping for the benefit of future generations.) When she gave me that notebook, my mother somehow intuited that I would have to dig up my Chilean roots, and that lacking a land into which to sink them I would have to do that on paper.
~ Isabel Allende
Una madre siempre tiene derecho a convocar a sus hijos.
~ Isabel Allende
In her mother's last days, Lucia understood that death was not an end, was not the absence of life, but a powerful oceanic wave of clear, luminous water
~ Isabel Allende
Sometimes I was resentful. Must she care about everyone in this world? Look at me! Praise me! I want to be the most important! Why do you care so much about so many things? But now, so many years later, I say: Thank you, Mother, for being what you were, for trying to develop me in every way. Kisv
~ Isabella Leitner
I never saw my mother in jeans, even in the country. She had one pair, which I have, but she never wore them. They were from 'Rear Window,' in the end when she's wearing jeans and loafers and a shirt. They were comfortable things that zip at the back, with really tight little pleats. They're very dark, they're not proper denim.
~ Caroline, Princess of Hanover
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.
~ Penny Junor
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too.
~ Kameron Hurley