Quotes of: Mother Keyword

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

First Snow on Fuji

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

The Great Divorce

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Greylands

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

The Hobbit

The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers.

Hurricane Ginger

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.

Hush Hush

A brick could be dropped on your mother-in-law’s head from the height of 66.6 feet. You know, as a going away present.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them

Bounty's End

A skyscraper is to a brick as a pyramid is to____________A) a vagina, B) a particular vagina, or C) your mother’s vagina. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

The Bell Jar

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Black Skin, White Masks

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Birthright

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

The Bean Trees, With Related Readings

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.

Bark: Stories