Quotes of: Better-mother Keyword

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

The Count of Monte Cristo

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

City of Heavenly Fire

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

A Child Called "It"

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the dark? Do you remember the world with mothers and fathers and stillness that did not feel like death?

Clean

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

Catch a Mate

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

Crossed

Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.

Discount Armageddon

My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

The Defendant

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

Darkest Hour

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Don Quixote

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

Dreamland

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

The Dream Thieves

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Divergent

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Dreaming Water

She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

The Dead-Tossed Waves

Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.

Dare You To

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Ex Machina

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Eurydice

Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.

Endless Summer