Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Never Too Late to Call: God Is Always There

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.

The Other Mr. Darcy

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

For One More Day

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

The Language of Flowers

Marcus stepped behind the bar, saying, “Dan sent me over to assist you and learn how to tend the bar.” Doms could be pain-in-the-ass mother hens.

Lean on Me

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Life Among the Savages

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

The Last Werewolf

I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.

Misfits of Love: Healing Conversations in the Barnyard

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That isn’t my story.

Sun Shine Down: A Memoir

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother.

Snuff

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

The Setting Sun

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.

The Search for WondLa

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

This Is How You Lose Her

My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved.

One Less. One More.