M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My mother’s green eyes shone as though she were gazing upon one herself. “As a civilization there is so much more to us than meets the eye, Christine. We are a shining reflection of something, and whatever that thing is…” She swallowed. “I believe it’s a thing of beauty. Why else were we told to multiply?”
Source: The Baby Whisperer
“my mother’s grief is something that lives
in the nature of all things”
Source: coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry
“My mother's hopes for me were that I would always be happy and thin. My hope for her was that she would never leave me.”
Source: Delicacy
“My mother’s laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.”
“My Mother’s Love
Gave me a chance to live
Grateful that I am alive
Glad she helped me survive
I can feel the depth of her sacrifice
She closed the doors of early death on me
Through her act of bravery
Indeed, she has been so kind
What can one give
To a parent who took the risk
By saving an unborn child?
I am privileged enough
Being counted among the living
Thank God she lived too!
Although she is now gone
Her efforts will not go unnoticed
She chose my life over hers
I will forever honour her
Because for me to be here
It is due to my Mother’s love”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
“My mother's message to black and white folks alike was clear: It's nobody's business what I do for my children, nor how I manage to do it.”
Source: The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
“My mother's mouth drops. 'Emmy...don't say those things Emmy. Remember, we don't talk about those things.'
'Yes Mom. I remember. That's why I'm here, looking like this.'
An orderly knocks on the door and announces that visiting time is over.
My mother and I look at each other awkwardly, and hug.
'I love you,' she says.
'I love you too, Mom.'
'You aren't telling them too much are you?' she asks, afraid.
I sign. 'No Mommy, I'm not.'
She's visibly relieved. She leaves the room.
The orderley comes back and escorts me back into the main room.
I just sit and laugh to myself."
(after Emmy's suicide attempt) ~ The Finer Points of Becoming Machine”
“My mother's private constellation of shame intermingled with love and despair no longer.”
Source: Ariadne
“My mother's right. Home for us doesn't have to be a fixed place. I find it in slots of time, in slants of light. I feel it closest at dawn when night and day meld and mingle awhile before they drift apart.”
Source: Doll Crimes
“My mother's smile was like a hug.”
“My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It propelles me to strive to become the man my mother wanted me to be.”
Source: Funeral in a Feminine Dress: Depravity Reborn as Virtue
“My mother’s true appeal went beyond the clash of the beautiful trust fund darling as the arm candy of an overweight trailer salesman. Carl grew up in harsh, chaotic poverty. His escape was the alcoholism that was conceived during puberty and flourished throughout adulthood. His initial career was a diesel mechanic wearing faded coveralls with oil up his nails and sweat on his brow. His earliest homes were the dingy trailers he would later profit from. His first marriage was doused with benders, acid trips, and sex crazed parties packed with orgies with a first wife who’d lost track of number of dicks shoved down her throat in the midst of intoxication. I don’t know what sparked his revelation, but at some point, Carl decided to fiercely pursue the world he envied. He wanted a life of starched, white shirts, ties, SUVs, and picket fences. He ached for the scent of steaks grilling on his sunny patio. He dreamed of white-collar southern beauty and my mother, in all her naïve innocence, was the loveliest possession he could ever obtain.”
“My mother's uncle Bradley had ten sons and one daughter. Those pre-Nintendo numbers.”
Source: Calling for a Blanket Dance
“My mother’s world was made only of her spouse and children. No one else could enter it.”
Source: What Hunger
“My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.”
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
“My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.”
Source: Every You, Every Me
“My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.”
“My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.”
“My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.”
“My mother said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.”
“My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.”
“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”
“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.”
“My mother said my father walked out that time, the final time, because she had spent eight hundred dollars at the French Hen in Manchester- she'd special-ordered lox and toro and paddlefish caviar- and he wanted her to be miserable.”
Source: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”
Source: A Photo Journal
“My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature..... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Raccoona and Tiptree were two authors that came from the same source, but in a letter to Alice she wrote that she preferred Tiptree to Raccoona: 'Raccoona, I think, has less control, thus less wit and power.'
Le Guin, Mother said, had understood something deep. 'When you take on a male persona, something happens.'
When I asked her what that was, she sat back in her chair, waved her arm, and smiled. 'You get to be the father.”
Source: The Blazing World
“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
Source: the bell jar
“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
“My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'”
“My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone”
Source: How to (Un)cage a Girl
“My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.”
“My mother said, "Pack your bags and leave." And my father said, "I've already paid for a year and a half - why don't you stay and get the degree?" And I said, "That's a good idea, because then I can at least run a theater even though I have no talent, and I'll never be an actor." It's my fault that I believed them.”
“My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.”
“My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.”
“My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.”
“My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.”
“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”
“My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.”
“My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.”
Source: Happy Ever After
“My mother says healers are born, not made.”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”
“My mother says I have boring percussion.”
“My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.”
“My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.”
“My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.”
“My mother says it can't stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we stick together. But they stand for a challenge too. It's not enough to stay in Bethesda, Maryland, and hunker down in air-conditioned houses. We promise one another that someday we'd get out in the world and figure some stuff out.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”
Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'