M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.”
“Mother Teresa- cream. Exemplars, exemplary models we can learn from and become more like, but we don't have to imitate them. We can become more authentically ourselves, impeccable and unselfish, and beneficial to many like a wish fulfilling jewel.”
“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”
“Mother, thank you for letting your pure love flow through your heart’s channel of purity to inherit and bequeath the heritage of motherhood.”
“Mother; that woman who still considers you a child irrespective of the stage you are in life”
“Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.”
“MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it's easy to fail to appreciate what a miracle it is to have more time. So, I suppose, it feels different right now because this time you're paying attention”
Source: New Year's Thieve
“MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.”
Source: New Year's Thieve
“MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.”
“Mother today had displayed that rustic courage of the country; the free unshackled unrestrained energy that so characterised the earthy Sikh people. A mooring was coming undone in his heart. He was secretly proud of his mother. He might have felt embarrassed at her lack of restraint but he desperately wanted to get some of that raw courage. He could only dream of it. He had a spontaneous vision of an expansive green field stretching acre after acre under a blazing sun. That is where his people got it from.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.”
“Mother trees have an effect on the oceans as well, as Katsuhiko Matsunaga and his team in Japan had confirmed. The leaves, when they fall in the autumn, contain a very large, complex acid called fulvic acid. When the leaves decompose, the fulvic acid dissolves into the moisture of the soil, enabling the acid to pick up iron. This process is called chelation. The heavy, iron-containing fulvic acid is now ready to travel, leaving the home ground of the mother tree and heading for the ocean. In the ocean it drops the iron. Hungry algae, like phytoplankton, eat it, then grow and divide; they need iron to activate a body-building enzyme called nitrogenase. This set of relationships is the feeding foundation of the ocean This is what feeds the fish and keeps the mammals of the sea, like the whale and the otter healthy.”
Source: To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
“Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.”
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
Source: The Stranger
“Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest”
“Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with me or my brothers and sisters.”
Source: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
“Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.”
“Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.”
“Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land.”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“Mother was right, you know. It's an odd thing, isn't it: you never want your mother to be right, but the older you get, the more right you realise your mother was. All those things that mothers say, all those annoying things, turn out to be right.”
Source: Pianos and Flowers: Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind
“Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.”
Source: my heart belongs
“Mother was wrong. I'm not meant to just live. I'm meant to follow my passions, with God at the front.”
Source: A Time to Speak
“Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
“Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.”
“Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous care with which she guides our otherwise erring feet, watches with feelings which none but a mother can know the gradual expansion of our youth to the riper yours of discretion. We may not think of it then, but it will be recalled to our minds in after years, when the gloomy grave or a fearful living separation has placed her far beyond our reach, and her sweet voice of sympathy and consolation for the various ills attendant upon us sounds in our ears no more. How deeply then we regret a thousand deeds that we have done contrary to her gentle admonitions! How we sign for those days once more, that we may retrieve what we have done amiss and make her kind heart glad with happiness! Alas! once gone they can never be recalled, and we grow mournfully sad with the bitter reflection.”
Source: Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
“Mother, What doesn't share our grief is not us.”
Source: Sacrament of Bodies
“Mother: What more can we be?
Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.”
Source: All My Sons
“Mother, wife, daughter - three generations of women... in my hand...”
“Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse. I have to know what that is.”
Source: Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood
“Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.”
“Mother, you are hopeless."
"Certainly not. Shameless, perhaps, but never hopeless.”
Source: The Duke And I
“Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.”
“Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.”
“Mother's Day is coming up soon. If you're lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you're grateful to her [...] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.”
“Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.”
Source: Memoirs
“Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”
“Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.”
“Mother's love grows by giving.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb
“Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Mother's love outlives everything”
“Mother's milk leads to everything.”
“Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.”
Source: The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
“Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.”
“Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.”
“Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.”