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Quotes About Mother

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
~ Alice Walker
Cuando recibió el primer disparo, no le dolió nada. Por un instante creyó que tenía una flor grande, roja y caliente sobre el pecho, la quiso coger para llevarle a su madre, pero estaba maniatado; sin embargo, todos le vieron sonreír, y cayó muerto. De 'Tobita', p.48.
~ Alicia Yánez Cossío
In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.
~ Alison Bechdel
my dream, as taught to me by my own mother, was to be the final destination of a man's journey.
~ Alison Gaylin
Carlston drew a breath through pinched nostrils. "Then what about Lady Helen herself? She is a direct inheritor; the Reclaimer daughter of a Reclaimer mother. That, at least, is documented." The wave of a thin hand dismissed his lordship's words. Or, Helen thought, maybe it dismissed such a female lineage.
~ Alison Goodman
His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber
~ Alison Weir
O motherwhat have I left outO motherwhat have I forgotten
~ Allen Ginsberg
My mother thinks some disaster has happened if I don't return a phone call from her within twenty-four hours. It's hard to explain that the only chance to return the call will be when a disaster ISN'T happening, stormy being the prevailing climate with surprise outbreaks of calm.
~ Allison Pearson
Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?
~ Ally Carter
No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.
~ Ally Carter
So just out of curiosity, what do you think I'm worth?" he asked when he just couldn't help himself. "I mean, it isn't often a person's put on the open market. What is the going rate for presidents' sons these days? Is it more or less than what you guys were going to get for my mother? Accounting for inflation, of course.
~ Ally Carter
And that why your mother came to this room....she told me that sometimes it takes a thief to catch a thief
~ Ally Carter
What was her idea?" I ask, my voice like ice. "For Amelia's heir to marry the prince. Your mother was the one who first thought of this solution... The only problem is... well... we got the heir wrong.
~ Ally Carter
Bu sefer verecek bir cevab?, bir çözüm önerisi yoktu. Kat'in annesini kaybetmekten öÄŸrendiÄŸi bir ÅŸey varsa, o da dünyadaki en iyi h?rs?z?n bile zaman? çalamayaca??yd?. (syf. 134)
~ Ally Carter
Imagine if Uluru is absolute serenity and the ocean is homicidically mental, then my mother has been driving up and down the Pacific Highway for as long as I can remember.
~ Alyssa Brugman
Nous avons chacun une vieille mère, qui n'est pas forcément notre mère de sang, mais que nous vénérons pour des motifs immémoriaux
~ Amelie Nothomb
L'enfant eut le cÅ"ur comprimé de souffrance. Mais à l'intérieur d'elle quelque chose de fort et de clair chuchotait : Moi, je me souviens, moi, je sais que ce n'était pas un rêve, moi, je sais que la déesse est ma mère et moi, je sais qu'elle m'aime comme je l'aime et que cet amour existe.
~ Amelie Nothomb
My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.
~ Amanda Bearse
But talking about the best bond, then it has to be my mother. I fight with her as much as I love her. Many a times after fighting we instantly start laughing because we know no amount of bickering can ever weaken our bond.
~ Sourabh Raj Jain
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
~ Thomas Edward Brown
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
~ William Petty
I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria.
~ Lady Colin Campbell
Chanel has always been this big thing for me - there are baby pictures of me wearing my mom's Chanel pumps.
~ Lily-Rose Depp
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
~ Anthony Doerr