Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.

Mary Barton

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

Mother Courage and Her Children

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!

Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

Midnight's Children

If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!

Suzy Freaking Q: The Defintive Renegade High School Handbook on What to Say and What to Do about Guys, Friends, Parents and More.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.

Strong Poison

My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.

A Storm of Swords

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

The Stranger

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

The Storyteller

Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him.

Survive Ruinland: Chronicles of Lauren Vasquez

Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry, no matter how old we get.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one

The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Thirukkural

Your mother is going to be fine," the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?

This Is How I Find Her

I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

The Princess Bride

I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

The Princess Bride