Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always suspicious, always tearing you down and splitting your dreams straight down the seams. When my fir...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

A Confederacy of Dunces

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

Dark Prince

So the fox killer his brother,the wolf." -Mother Scaer

Half a King

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Cloud Atlas

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Jack White

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

Deborra-Lee Furness

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

David Rockefeller

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Kristin Scott Thomas

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

72 Hour Hold

A mother’s love—" "Fuck love," Amber snarls, "she wants power.

Accelerando

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

The Autobiography of My Mother

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Jo's Boys

Every mother has to take care of her family.

Sarah's Garden

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

The Ministry of Motherhood

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Mother Night

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

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