M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.”
“My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.”
“My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.”
“My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.”
“My mother took off when I was little. I want to hunt her down and tell her how proud I am.”
“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.”
“My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.”
“My mother traded her time for money, now I pay people to trade their time for money. I'm fortunate”
“My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.”
“My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.”
“My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.”
Source: Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
“My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.”
“My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.”
“My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.”
“My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath”
Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
“My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.”
“My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.”
“My mother used to grow roses in her garden. We'd pick them together every morning."
She fell silent, remembering how she'd carried on the tradition with her papa after her mother died. One by one they'd cut the flowers, each still so fresh that dew glistened on its petals and trickled down her trembling fingers.
"Eight pink roses, seven white ones, and three sprigs of myrtle," she murmured, pointing at the pink and white roses in the line of bushes.
"What is that?"
"It's what I would always bring Mama- the same arrangement my father presented to her when he'd asked her to marry him."
The story of their courtship had been her favorite, one Papa had told her over and over. She'd never tired of it, never stopped asking him to tell it to her.
Before her mother had died, he'd always ended the story with a smile, saying, "Your mother is my true love."
Once she was gone, his expression became solemn, shadows sinking into the lines of his brow, his teeth clenched tight to keep from grimacing. Then he would say, "Your mother was my true love."
So Cinderella had learned how one word could change everything. And she had stopped asking her father for the story.”
Source: So This is Love
“My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.”
“My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.”
Source: Breathless Reads Sampler
“My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.”
“My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.”
“My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.”
“My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.”
“My mother used to say not sleeping was the sign of a guilty mind. It could have been. There was a lot in my mind to feel guilty about. When you’re drunk and trying to sleep, your thoughts are visited by the ghosts of those deeds whose heat still glows hottest in your personal darkness. Our actions burn much longer than the moments in which they occur. And drunks like me, we hide from the glow of the embers by fueling other fires and hiding within the flames.”
Source: The Red Highway
“My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.”
Source: I Live Here
“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia”
“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.”
“My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.”
“My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."”
“My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.”
“My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.”
“My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.”
“My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.”
“My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.”
“My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.”
“My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.”
“My mother used to tell me, every time we were watching Cinderella, that Cinderella had the best attitude and that I should strive to be just like her. Later when I grew up, I resented my mother for teaching me that way, as I saw it as the reason why I often felt preyed on by people who were much more like the ugly stepsisters. But now, all of a sudden, I’ve realized that what my mom meant was that no matter how ugly people can be to you, no matter how rough they treat you, no matter how much their actions tempt you to become your worst— you should overcome them by never letting them steal your gentleness. People only win when they are able to take away your gentleness, your sweetness. But if you remember that you’re a princess, and they’re just not, at the end of the day you win! Still, my mom should have pointed me in the direction of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Cinderella is fine, but had she taught me that Belle was the best way to be, I would have probably never grown to resent that. Belle always retained her gentleness but she could still beat up a pack of wolves at the same time and that’s the kind of princess I wanted to be like! Not to mention she loved books!”
“My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.”
“My mother used to tell me that a woman's beauty lied not in the size of her dowry, but in the modest depths of her maiden heart.”
Source: Angel of Darkness: A Romantic Regency Novella
“My mother used to tell me that life could change in an instant, a line drawn in the sand separating before from after, altering you completely. Was that really true? Could a person be changed in an instant? Or did a crack already have to exist in the ice, the beginnings of a change we simply refused to see?”
Source: Emily and Einstein
“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”
Source: Keeping Faith
“My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.”
Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
“My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.”
“My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."”
“My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.”
“My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was important. My mother made me feel that I was important as a thinker at four-years-old. And I instill that within my students everyday.”
“My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.”