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Quotes About Mother

The fetus had not been harmed at all by the numerous stab wounds the mother received. Noguchi thought that the fetus probably lived for about fifteen to twenty minutes after its mother's death before it, too, had died.
~ Greg King
In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.
~ Greg Mortenson
I'm certain that your estimation of your mother and father was rather hyperbolic anyway. Parents are deified by their children, but as you can see, the idols in the temple have come tumbling down." He extended a foot and touched the woman's corpse.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Jade nodded. "My father didn't like the name, but my mother can be quite stubborn.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is served, except when a can won't open. That's the way she is: fine unless something goes wrong and that minor obstacle becomes a huge wall she can't scale. She becomes helpless whenever things don't go smoothly, or exactly as she imagined them.
~ Gregory Galloway
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
~ Groucho Marx
Dicen que en Lima el cielo es permanentemente gris, mas nunca llueve. Así rememoro los días al lado de mamá, encapotados, neblinosos, sin relámpagos, sin vendavales.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Ofelia's mother didn't know it, but she also believed in a fairy tale. Carmen Cardoso believed the most dangerous tale of all: the one of the prince who would save her.
~ Guillermo del Toro
La madre de Ofelia no lo sabía, pero ella también creía en los cuentos de hadas. Carmen Cardoso creía en el cuento más peligroso de todos: aquel en que un príncipe la salvaría.
~ Guillermo del Toro
La semana santa propicia despliegues de teatralidad insulsa, tan cara al alma mexicana y a sus conflictos esenciales: la madre gime porque su hijo está en problemas, y los hijos sangran porque los abandonó su padre.
~ Guillermo Sheridan
Mãe, que é que é o mar, Mãe?" - Mar era longe, muito longe dali, espécie duma lagôa enorme, um mundo d'água sem fim, Mãe mesma nunca tinha avistado o mar, suspirava. - "Pois, Mãe, então mar é o que a gente tem saudade?
~ Guimarães Rosa
Virgin of Guadalupe—a syncretism of the Aztec mother goddess Tonantzin and Mary of Bethlehem—that's the focus of veneration in Mexican Catholicism.
~ Gustavo Arellano
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
~ Guy Johnson
We are learning to live with death, with the dead, we are learning with the life of our death in us, to live with cats, with mother, with envelopes, with secrets, to live each instant, we are learning to live, we are learning but we don't know. Envelopes of instants: are they life, are they death? The answer depends on my force of relife. Today I have the Force. Everything is living. Tomorrow we'll see. Today I have the Force of ascent.
~ Helene Cixous
There is hidden and always ready in woman the source; the locus for the other. The mother, too, is a metaphor. It is necessary and sufficient that the best of herself be given to woman by another woman for her to be able to love herself and return in love the body that was "born" to her. Touch me, caress me, you the living no-name, give me my self as myself.
~ Helene Cixous
So it is customary to see in a mother's ideals and intensity of ambition what is carried out by one or another of her children. According to biographers, the source of success appears to lie in a mother's doting—or in her neglectful selfishness, which forces an offspring out on its own.
~ James Hillman
God made a wonderful mother, A Mother who never grows old. He made her smile of sunshine. And he molded he heart of pure of pure gold. In her eyes he placed bright shinning stars. In her cheeks fair roses you see. God made a wonderful mother. And he gave that wonderful mother to me.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
God made a wonderful mother, A Mother who never grows old. He made her smile of sunshine. And he molded her heart of pure of pure gold. In her eyes he placed bright shinning stars. In her cheeks fair roses you see. God made a wonderful mother. And he gave that wonderful mother to me.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The child's experience of the mother is internalized as a complex; an emotionally charged cluster of energy beyond the control of the ego.
~ James Hollis
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
~ James Joyce
Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pringlpik in the ilandiskippy, with peewee and powwows in beggybaggy on her bickybacky and a flick flask fleckflinging its pixylighting pacts' huemeramybows, picking here, pecking there, pussypussy plunderpussy.
~ James Joyce
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.
~ James Joyce
God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton . Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.
~ James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real. It must be. What are our ideas or ambitions? Play. Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
~ James Joyce