Mother Quotes (page 75)
![Sherman Alexie quote: "Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or..."](/pic/291185/600x316/quotation-sherman-alexie-like-any-good-shaman-professional-baseball.jpg)
will you remember this day Gogol?'his father asked , turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head . 'How long do I have to remember it' . Over the rise and fall of the wind , he could hear his father's laughter.He was standing there , waiting for Gogol to catch up , putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. 'Try to remember it always' he once Gogol had reached him , leading him slowly back towards the breakwater , to where his mother and Sonia stood...
Jhumpa Lahiri
![James Patterson quote: "Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a..."](/pic/290737/600x316/quotation-james-patterson-yes-i-owed-my-life-angels-life-and-my.jpg)
![Wally Lamb quote: "Who gets the change?" the clerk asked. "You or...your..."](/pic/290591/600x316/quotation-wally-lamb-who-gets-the-change-the-clerk-asked-you.jpg)
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?
Amy Tan
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.
Sylvia Plath
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.
Isabel Allende
![Mitch Albom quote: "When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the..."](/pic/290161/600x316/quotation-mitch-albom-when-you-look-into-your-mothers-eyes-you-know.jpg)
I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.
Jennifer Weiner
![Etta James quote: "My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a..."](/pic/289772/600x316/quotation-etta-james-my-mother-always-told-me-even-if-a-song-has-been.jpg)
The boat was vacuum-packed with Albanians, four generations to a family: great-grandmother, air-dried like a chilli pepper, deep red skin and a hot temper; grandmother, all sun-dried tomato, tough, chewy, skin split with the heat; getting the kids to rub olive oil into her arms; mother, moist as a purple fig, open everywhere - blouse, skirt, mouth, eyes, a wide-open woman, lips licking the salt spray flying from the open boat. Then there were the kids, aged four and six, a couple of squirs,...
Jeanette Winterson