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Mothering Quotes (page 60)

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't. Philip Pullman
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories) Agatha Christie
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. George R. R. Martin
J. K. Rowling quote: "He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for..."
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. J. K. Rowling
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives. Glenn Beck
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother."
Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. Chuck Palahniuk
George R. R. Martin quote: "All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down..."
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers. George R. R. Martin
[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family. Louisa May Alcott
...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey V. S. Naipaul
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think? Jodi Picoult
in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds) Virginia Woolf
Larry’s such a liar--- He tells outrageous lies. He says he’s ninety-nine years old Instead of only five. He says he lives up on the moon, He says that he once flew. He says he’s really six feet four Instead of three feet two. He says he has a billion dollars ‘Stead of just a dime. He says he rode a dinosaur Back in some distant time. He says his mother is the moon Who taught him magic spells. He says his father is the wind That rings the morning bells. He says he can take stones and... Shel Silverstein
She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be. Nicholas Sparks
George R. R. Martin quote: "No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should..."
No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship. George R. R. Martin
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip. W. Somerset Maugham

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