Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably. She blinked. "Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?

Penelope

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

The Portable Nietzsche

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

Peter Pan

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies.

The Prince Of Plungers

CHARADE PARADE A 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans

Profound Vers-A-Tales

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

The Raven Boys

Sweetest baby ever,” my mother said with a sigh. “You mean second sweetest, right?” I corrected.

The Ruby Circle

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

The Reconstructionist

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

The Tao of Motherhood

The most dangerous flower is one that grows on a grave. Everybody in its vicinity is dead. That’s why I hand-picked it for my mother-in-law.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

She had a perfect smile. She doesn’t anymore, but I do. I have that perfect smile mounted on my wall like a pair of antlers.

This Book Has No Title

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

Unteachable

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

Vanishing Acts

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

Vanishing Acts

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

The Viscount Who Loved Me

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?

The Wrong Mother

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

White Oleander

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

War and Peace