Quotes of: Mother Keyword

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Salem Falls

We need grandchildren here,” Pete’s mother said to me when we visited. “You don’t get married just to eat and fart.

Married to a Devil

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

And the Mountains Echoed

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

The Miracle of Forgiveness

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Mother Night

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

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

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

Magic Study

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

The Mother

Most people’ll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

No Country for Old Men

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.

Nicholas Nickleby

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Neighborhood Watch

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

For One More Day

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

Little, Big

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.

Living Dead in Dallas

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers.

Learn Me Good

Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.

A Lesson in Loving

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

Midnight Cactus

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!

Out of all the fathers in the world, I am the most like Mother Theresa. Also, I am childless.


Sleepwalking is restercise