I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty…

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

— Thomas Moore

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

— Penny Marshall

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

— Wesley Snipes

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot…

— Anonymous

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look…

— Bette Midler

My mother's a pretty warm, open person.

— Adepero Oduye

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

— Terry Pratchett

We may not be able to prevent the stormy times in our lives, but we can always dance in the puddles!

— Sarah Moores

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.…

— Sojourner Truth

Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at…

— Valerie Worth

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look,…

— Mercedes Lackey

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

— Steven Spielberg