Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother.
Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.
As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.
Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.
Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved.
Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.
I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.
I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.
She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has a way of removing one's inhibitions.
I think good advice for a father to give to his only son would be, "Don't make the same mistake I made with your mother. Remember to pull out.
you are as fleetingly beautiful as a mother’s tears and a father’s pranks a brother’s bachelorhood and a best friend’s bad mood a bride’s glittering jitters and a handsome stranger’s smile.
My mother-in-law scared the hell out of me. But it’s cool, because the stench of Satan reminds me of her anyways. Hungry? Deviled eggs anyone?
