Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Ma Jian

Mother, just like the last fifty-five thousand times you’ve mentioned it, I have no intention of getting married and having a family. You’re just going to have to content yourself with the grandchildren you already have.” ... ... His mother nar...

How to Howl at the Moon

Sydney's the kind of port that leaves a mark on a sailor," the old man mused. "Really?" Haakon said, wondering what the man meant. "It did on me," he said, opening up his shirt to display his chest. It was covered with tattoos! At the top, SYDNEY was...

Walt Disney Pictures Presents Shipwrecked

Mother: [gets on the phone] Hello, Mrs. Schwartz? Yes, I'm fine. Uh, Mrs. Schwartz, do you know what Ralph just said? [Mrs. Schwartz's speech is inaudible] Mother: No, he said... [whispers it close to the receiver] Mrs. Schwartz: [in a hysterical ton...

A Christmas Story

Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunte...

Alice Sebold

If you want to hit your mother-in-law, be sure to split her head.

Arabian

Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap.

Bulgarian

If you have no enemies think then that your own mother might have produced one.

Bulgarian

The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.

Japanese

It's easy to say "May Allah roast the lion's mother," when the lion isn't there.

Moorish

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.

Ugandan

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Charge of the Goddess: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

Necessity is the mother of invention. She’s also my mother, though Invention and I have different dads.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.

Anansi Boys

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

The Handmaid's Tale

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Ice Hunt

Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

Stella! Mother of Modern Acting

Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.

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

And I always say that to the children: “You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!

Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps