Quotes of: Mother-teresa Keyword

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

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them

Bounty's End

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

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Birthright

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

The Bean Trees, With Related Readings

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.

Bark: Stories

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Allegra Huston

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Andy Kaufman

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

Amy Tan

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

Barbara Windsor

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Howard Schultz