Quotes of: Mother Keyword

I think you mother has Asperger's," Georgie had said to Neal. "They didn't get Asperger's int he '50s." "I'm just saying maybe she's on the the spectrum." "She's just a math teacher.

Landline

The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks.

Last Flight Out

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

The Lightning Thief

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

Lavinia

Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.

Letters Home: The Story of an Air Force Wife

Your mother just carried you literally. The one who really gave you to her is the one who really knows about the main problem you were meant to solve!

Leaders' Watchwords

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

More Than Words: Volume 3

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