Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'

Per Petterson

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

Phoebe Snow

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

P.G. Wodehouse

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Ralph Bakshi

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Rachel Cusk

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

Rachel Cusk

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.

Rossana Condoleo

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Ree Drummond

Mary,' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm ' 'You mightn't like it,' said Mary. 'But I love it.

Roddy Doyle

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 on the surface.

Robertson Davies

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Robert Frost

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

Rickie Lee Jones

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

Rachel Kushner

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

Susan Estrich

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

Susan Faludi

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

Seamus Heaney

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

Satish Kumar

my mother is pure radiance. she is the sun i can touch and kiss and hold without getting burnt.

Sanober Khan

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

Seal

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci