Quotes of: Mothers Keyword

The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.

Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

Recipes to Remember: My Epicurean Journey to Preserve My Mother's Italian Cooking from Memory Loss

Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put to...

The Rich and the Profane

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

Mrs. Sappho: The Life Of C. A. Dawson Scott, Mother Of International P. E. N

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.

Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

North and South

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.

One Man Caravan

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

The lesson is letting go, giving up and giving thanks for what is. Life unfolds in mysterious and beautiful ways; I have very little say in this process.

Sunlight on My Shadow: A Birth Mother's Journey From Secrecy to Renewal

Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for all. But most of all, Mothers

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

Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are ...

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.

Peter Pan

Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.

Two Green Otters: Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and all the Others

People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant...

Undressing Emmanuelle: A Life Stripped Bare

How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?

The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my en...

Anne Lamott

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother di...

Henning Mankell

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners e...

My Mother: Demonology