Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

The Dream Thieves

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Divergent

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Dreaming Water

She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

The Dead-Tossed Waves

Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.

Dare You To

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Ex Machina

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Eurydice

Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.

Endless Summer

I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

Eve

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 in the surface.

Fifth Business

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

Feed

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Fearlessly Feminine

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

Fearlessly Feminine

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

First Snow on Fuji

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

The Great Divorce

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Greylands

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