We need grandchildren here,” Pete’s mother said to me when…

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

— Lord Mountbatten

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though…

— Julie Andrews

“Don’t psychoanalyze me,” her mother said. “I already have. And I say again, ‘ah.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“a large chifforobe wedged into a small closet that their mother said they’d have to pay Tom Robinson a nickel to bust up.”

— Karin Slaughter

“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to…

— Condoleezza Rice

“Clare could bear this no longer. His eyes were full of tears, which seemed like drops of molten lead. He bade a quick good-night…

— Thomas Hardy

“I am not certain that Lord Carson and I will suit one another." Mostly because she knew she was falling in love with his…

— Megan Frampton

“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.”

— Claire Messud

“She had to think about the future, her mother said. Marriage. She was sixteen now. It was time. The word made her sick to…

— Kimberly Cutter

“My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.”

— Tessa Kiros

“Morgan said that his mother said that Miss Kildaire is sitting on a shelf." Zach had to think about that one for a few…

— Nalini Singh

A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and…

— Mark Jason Dominus

“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.” “Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.”

— Kyle Minor