Quotes of: Better-mother Keyword

I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

Eve

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

Fifth Business

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

Feed

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Fearlessly Feminine

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

Fearlessly Feminine

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

First Snow on Fuji

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

The Great Divorce

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Greylands

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

The Hobbit

The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers.

Hurricane Ginger

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.

Hush Hush

A brick could be dropped on your mother-in-law’s head from the height of 66.6 feet. You know, as a going away present.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

A skyscraper is to a brick as a pyramid is to____________A) a vagina, B) a particular vagina, or C) your mother’s vagina. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

The Bell Jar

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Black Skin, White Masks