Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The African Queen

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel

Mother says, People share when they know they have escaped hunger. Shouldn't people share because there is hunger?

Inside Out & Back Again

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is , something which is 'wholly mother'.

Journey Through Europe

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

A Journey of the Heart

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.

Jazz Town

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

Rigning í nóvember

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Rizal without the Overcoat

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

The Red Tent

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.

The Space Between

Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.

Submarine

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

Scarlett

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Salem Falls

We need grandchildren here,” Pete’s mother said to me when we visited. “You don’t get married just to eat and fart.

Married to a Devil

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

And the Mountains Echoed

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

The Miracle of Forgiveness

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Mother Night

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past