M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Multiverse theorists are certainly stark mad. They cannot make a worm, yet they will be making entire universes without a second thought.”
Source: This Quintessence of Dust: If Humans Aren’t Dust, What Are They?
“Multivitamins can help offset nutritional deficiencies.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“Mulutku memang sudah berkata tidak untuk dirimu, tapi sejatinya hatiku masih mengharapkanmu. Harus kau tahu, sebelas tahun mencintai dan menunggu untuk disakiti itu bukanlah waktu yang sebentar.”
“Mulți ochi te urmăresc, însă nu toate privirile îți apreciază munca. Fii indiferent. Continuă să lucrezi din greu pentru visul tău!”
“Mulțimea aceea vrednică de milă nu mai avea nimic uman, ci semăna cu o turmă care aleargă în devălmășie; erau prinși în matca unei uniformități ciudate. Hainele șifonate, fețele trase, vocile răgușite îi făceau să semene toți între ei. Toți făceau aceleași gesturi, rosteau aceleași cuvinte.”
Source: Suite Française
“Mum always said that you couldn't beat a good woman friend and that everyone should have atleast one. Do you remember that she always said there was two kinds of women? Men's women and women's women? And if you knew what was good for you, you'd be a woman's woman and you'd never be lonely. Said it was like belonging to a bloody great club. She wasn't wrong, neither.”
Source: Not All Tarts Are Apple
“Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.”
“Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.”
“Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'”
“Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.”
“Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.”
“Mum doesn't say anything because she's on the kitchen computer in her dressing gown. You'd think she was ignoring me deliberately, but she really is that engrossed is whatever dumb email she's writing.”
Source: Solitaire
“Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.”
“Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.”
Source: When will there be good news?
“Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.”
“Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'”
“Mum has had an anxious daughter for sixteen years and she still doesn't seem to get the concept of little victories. The spending an evening where I wasn't feeling sick every time someone asked me a question is actually a really big deal [...] There's no such thing as getting your hopes up if you're anxious. Little victories are everything in a world where worst-case scenarios are on an endless loop in your head.”
“Mum!' I screamed into the darkness. The word that causes me the most pain. The word that, to everyone else, brings the opposite. Brings them warmth, and love, and light, and understanding, and stability and security.”
Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“Mum is very, very good at that particular look.
There is nothing resting about that bitch face.”
Source: Roses of May
“Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.”
Source: In Bloom
“Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.”
“Mum once said, when she was alive, that boys were mean to girls because they liked them. I thought that was the most revolting thing I had ever heard, and I know it's not true of the boys at school.”
Source: Show Us Who You Are
“Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.”
“Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.”
Source: Boyfriend Rules of Good Behavior
“Mum said earlier what a lovely dress you’re wearing.” Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.” It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman. “I think you’ve really grown into it,” Valkyrie said. “I always thought it was a little shapeless.” Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant.”
Source: Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)
“Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.”
“Mum took me to the park a couple of times last week so that I could run. That was a waste of time though, it takes hours to get there and when you finally do, well, there's no room to do anything really, what with all the tents pitched everywhere. Mum says there used to be grass, but I don't see where.”
Source: Dark Steps
“Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.”
“Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.”
Source: After Forever Ends
“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...]
I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons. In my head he was mine, he was my special person but, of course, as I was getting older, his interest in me was waning anyway. I don't know whether it was because he had lost interest in me, or because the abuse elsewhere was so horrific, particularly without him in my life to make things seem better but, whatever the reason, I soon moved from wanted him to leave Sharron alone for my sake, to wanting him to leave her alone for the right reasons. She was tiny, just a toddler, and the thought of him touching her or abusing her horrified me. I started trying to attract his attention whenever he looked at her. I'd dance, I'd sing, I'd sit on his lap. I'd do a hundred things that were completely out of character - anything, anything to avoid seeing that look in his eye when he glanced at the baby.
I knew that he was planing to do to her what he had done to me. I tried to get in the way, I tried to get him to play with me, but once Sharron was about three, the penny finally dropped. I had always thought he wasn't in the same category as the others; they weren't nice, and he always was. But as she began to replace me, it made me face up to things. What Uncle Andrew did wasn't right. [...]
Even though I loved my uncle, and craved his attention, the thought of him coming into my bed was starting to repulse me. sharron slept in my bed, too, by then, and I wanted that to continue because I wanted to protect her.
Of course, there were plenty of times when I wasn't there. I was still being taken away to be abused. I was at school; Sharon was often left unprotected. Something must have been happening because she started wetting the bed almost every night. This was a sign that even I couldn't turn away from. Sharon was being abused. I was sure of it. But I wouldn't stand for it, not for much longer.
p209-2010”
Source: Groomed
“Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.”
“Mum, what's viv-i-sec-tion?”
Source: The Adults
“Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.”
“Mum yanarken verdiği ışıkla mutlu oluruz; ama eriyip giden, ölmekte olan muma baktıkça mutsuz oluruz! Belki de kendimizi de zaman karşısında eriyen zavallı bir mum gibi gördüğümüz içindir bu!”
“Mum, your heart is the same size as your fist,’ she told me once in delight, and we both made our hands into fists and held them against our chests and bumped them together: hands as hearts.”
Source: The Stolen Child
“Mum ışığında kitap okurken titreyen mum alevi kitabın cümleleri üzerinde dans eder ve kitabın hikâyesi sanki canlanıp bizim bulunduğumuz boyuta gelir!”
“Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.”
“Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.”
“Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really good, you should do this", She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.”
“Mumbai hides all its blemishes in the night”
Source: Isles of Mambo and other stories
“Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.”
“Mumbai is a city of stark contrasts - providing opportunities to millionaires to pursue their riches and millions of poor to pursue livelihood. For many, Mumbai is a city where their dreams begin; for many others, it marks and end of a dream.”
Source: Who Moved My Interest Rate: Leading the Reserve Bank Through Five Turbulent Years
“Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.”
“Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.”
“Mumbai is not just a place. It's an idea, made up of its people, structures and spaces, its history and its future, an idea that is not static, but in constant flux.”
Source: Still Bombay
“Mumbai is the shahar of dreams to which thousands flock every year. Its beauty and glory are both enchanting and enticing. It’s a city of fortunes, a city of poverty, a city of hope, a city of pain, a city of success, a city of loss, a city of stories, a city of games, a city of fate, a city of destiny, a city of love and a city of heartbreak. Changes occur in Mumbai minute by minute, mile by mile and inch by inch. Some dreams gain flight, while others burn in despair.
Mumbai is a city that never sleeps. It is always abuzz. Its inhabitants are multilingual and of different faiths. Some come to Mumbai in search of their passion, while others come in search of an identity. The shahar’s glamor, fashion and film stars attract people from all over India. The ameer, the gareeb, all come to Mumbai to search for their niche with the umeed of making it big someday. Hence, the hustle and bustle of the city makes its inhabitants feel both unimportant and significant simultaneously.”
Source: Train to Mumbai
“Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell of the sea, no matter where you are in the island city, and the blood metal smell of machines. It smells of the stir and sleep and the waste of sixty million animals, more than half of them humans and rats. It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and love that produces courage. It smells of ten thousand restaurants, five thousand temples, shrines, churches and mosques, and of hunderd bazaar devoted exclusively to perfume, spices, incense, and freshly cut flowers. That smell, above all things - is that what welcomes me and tells me that I have come home.
Then there were people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konark; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindi, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee, Animist; fair skin and dark, green eyes and golden brown and black; every different face and form of that extravagant variety, that incoparable beauty, India.”
Source: Shantaram
“Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.”
“Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.”