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Quotes About Mother

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
~ Dan Quayle
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
~ John Lennon
My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.
~ Patrick Schwarzenegger
The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
~ Sharon Olds
My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
~ Petra Kelly
Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas!
~ Will Hobbs
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'
~ will.i.am
Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss — sweeter this Than any other thing!
~ William Allingham
El pecado actual refleja el pecado original de la misma forma como lo hace una hija con su madre.
~ William Ames
Underneath this sable hearseLies the subject of all verse:Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.Death, ere thou hast slain anotherFair and learned and good as she,Time shall throw a dart at thee.
~ William Browne
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one…. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
~ William Faulkner
See the world we come from. There's no green there. They killed their mother and they're gonna do the same here....I will stand and fight. You know I will. But I need a little help here.
~ William Irwin
Funerals weren't just about the dead. They were about the dead leaving this world to reside with God, someone Mother wasn't seeing eye to eye with at the moment, if she ever had, and I couldn't shake the concern that in the middle of the service she would spring from her pew and find some way to spite him.
~ William Kent Krueger
When my mother finally sang it was not just a hymn she offered, it was consummate comfort. She sang slowly and richly and delivered the heart of that great spiritual as if she was delivering heaven itself and her face was beautiful and full of peace. I shut my eyes and her voice reached out to wipe away my tears and enfold my heart and assure me absolutely that Bobby Cole was being carried home.
~ William Kent Krueger
Funerals weren't just about the dead. They were about the dead leaving this world to reside with God, someone Mother wasn't seeing eye to eye with at the moment, if she ever had, and I couldn't shake the concern that in the middle of the service she would spring from her pew and find some way to spite him.
~ William Kent Krueger
We piled into the car, a 1955 Packard Clipper the color of canned peas that my mother had named Lizzie.
~ William Kent Krueger
Her left hand dangled from the armrest, her long fingers and beautiful clear nails. She always had lovely, elegant hands; my own mother's fat-fingered scrubwoman hands looked like dog's paws beside Laurie's. I reached across to take her hand, lacing my fingers in hers so that our two hands made one fist. The sight of her hand in mine made me briefly sentimental. I gave her an encouraging look and jostled our knotted hands.
~ William Landay
Oh!" he answered smiling, "Mr. Murray! I am glad to see you. I have been with several of your relations; the good lady your mother was of great use to us at Perth.
~ William MacLeod Raine
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen
~ David Eddings
Faced with her mother's mood swings, Charlotte is docile. She tames her melancholy. Is this how one becomes an artist? By growing accustomed to the madness of others?
~ David Foenkinos
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
~ David Frum
The disease will strike harder in the Blue-voting cities than the Red-voting empty spaces, and many in the Blue zone may blame the Red for the miseries ahead. In the next political chapter, there will be little patience for those earnest anthropological expeditions into MAGA-land that once engaged so much media energy. How do you listen to people if you blame their votes for killing your mother before her time?
~ David Frum
By now I was talking to my mother, as the wounded and the dying do, I was begging for comfort, just this last once, this last time. Put your cool hand on my brow as you did when I was little and had a fever and you came in the middle of the night and tucked me in. Sometimes she would take off all of my blankets and then one by one waft them back over me; first the sheet, she'd lift it up again, and it would flutter down, so cool, so clean. How happy children can be in their beds.
~ David Gilmour