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“I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything particularly special or wonderful about it, but when you watch somebody hold on to that life with both hands, it makes you think that life must be pretty damn good.”

Thinking Looks Hands Mother Watches Wonderful Special Ordinary Damn Make You Think Ordinary Life Damn Good

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.”

Facts Mother Father Citizens Ordinary Workers Ordinary Citizens

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

World Made Lasts Beautiful Mother Turns Grows Loses Too Much Grace Sadness Figures Youth Ordinary Ears Decades Flawed Gave Up Wrinkles Collars Pears

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.”

Seems Mother One Day Ordinary Extraordinary

Book:Shanghai Girls

Source: Shanghai Girls

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

Children Mother Turns Company Comfort Demand Ordinary Adults Fellows Affection Selfish Horrible Selfless Ordinary Life Horrible Things

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy — just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.”

People World Way Mean Different Mother Artist Crazy Horror Ordinary Being Different Ordinary Things

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.”

People Knows Mind Kind Made Mother Dog Ordinary Sight Unusual Busters

Book:The Mystery of the Hidden House

Source: The Mystery of the Hidden House

“Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide”

People Children Mother Women Change Differences Chance Like You Ordinary Womens Rights Ordinary People

Author:Meg Ryan

“Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.”

Seems Science Mother Religion Father Names Voice Heard Strange Ordinary Tone Dozen

Author:Carl Sagan

“My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.”

Moments Bigs Kids Joy Mother Voice Car Findings Ordinary Responsible Smile Believer Sunset Being Responsible Small Moments Ordinary Days

Author:Jennifer Garner