Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

Handle with Care

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

The History of History

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

How to Be an American Housewife

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother. "What?" "She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!" "Take a picture for me," Grandma said.

Burn for Me

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

Beautiful Quotes

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

The Book of Lost Things

But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.

Broken for You

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Renzo Piano

My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.

Amar'e Stoudemire

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

Michael Lee-Chin

My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Spalding Gray

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

I was logging 15-hour days, sampling food every minute. I had access to these amazing dishes, and it was easy to lose sight of how quickly the bites added up.

Adam Richman

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Barbara Corcoran

I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

Tina Brown