A Quotes
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“A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.”
“A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us”
“A mother's pride, a father's joy.”
Source: Poetical works
“A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.”
“A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.”
“a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.”
Source: Lamb in His Bosom
“A mothers Love is as deep and powerful as any ocean, in the depths of it forgiveness forever is found for her wandering child.”
“A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.”
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.”
Source: Haunted
“A motion to adjourn is always in order.”
Source: Tunnel in the Sky
“A motivated manpower is the most important thing.”
“A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.”
“A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle.”
Source: Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir
“A motorcycle is an independent thing.”
“A motorcycle out on the trunk road, snarling cocky as a fighter plane, bypasses the village, heading up to London. The great balloons drift in the sky, pearl-grown, and the air is so still that this morning's brief snow still clings to the steel cables, white goes twisting peppermint-stick down thousands of feet of night. And the people who might have been asleep in the empty houses here, people blown away, some already forever... are they dreaming of cities that shine all over with lamps at night, of Christmases seen again from the vantage of children and not of sheep huddled so vulnerable on their bare hillside, so bleached by the Star's awful radiance? or of songs so funny, so lovely or true, that they can't be remembered on waking .dreams of peace time.
"What was it like? Before the war?”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy.”
Source: The Mud Hut I Grew Upon
“A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.”
“A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.”
“A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.”
“A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.”
“A mountain is a mother of alpinism.”
“A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.”
“A mountain is not defined by how many climb its peak, but by how firmly it stands through the winds and storms of time. Strength is not about being noticed, but about enduring in silence and standing tall against all odds.”
“A mountain is not nearly as much a wonder as a mosquito.”
“A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.”
“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.”
“A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.”
Source: Sackett
“A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“A mountain shrouded in mist is not hiding anything profound. There is no more wisdom on top of that mountain than there is anywhere else. It is just as sacred as a nap below the bough of a tree, washing the dishes, the sun fading over a meadow, belly laughter, a walk down a narrow path.”
“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”
Source: April Morning
“A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.”
Source: On Nature: Selected Essays
“A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A mountaineer who can descend from the summit is a good mountaineer; otherwise, he is a dead one.”
Source: Journey to Red Dawn: The Torch of Life
“A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.”
“A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.”
“A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.”
“A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.”
“A mouse and two cows lived in a yellow house...
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Source: A Mouse and Two Cows
“A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.”
“A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldy bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move.
[Expressing, in picturesque terms, the strength of an organism relative to its bulk.]”
“A mouse does not rely on just one hole.”
“A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.”
“A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.”
“A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve.”
“A mouse is too weak to fight a lion but too strong for the cords that can holds a lion.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.”