I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself…

“Remember our story. You’re going to visit a cousin who has just started to farm in North Carolina. You’re taking gifts.” “Even though we’re…

— Ken Follett

“But I would tell Mother none of this. Nor would I tell her that at the hour of his death, I was floating free…

— Sue Monk Kidd

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

— Anonymous

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

— Quentin Crisp

Tell my mother, tell my father I've done the best I can.

— Shinedown

Tell my mother I died for my country. I did what I thought was best.

— John Wilkes

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

— John Wilkes Booth

My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad… But let your words andconduct be perfectly puresuch as your…

— Rutherford Birchard Haye

“what good will it do to tell her her mother´s alive if her mother gets herself killed in the next hour?really?call me provincial, but…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am, Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

— Anonymous

And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced,…

— Barack Obama

Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus..." "I…

— Cassandra Clare

“Tell me Mother will I die? Yes, my child and so shall I”

— Chris Isaak

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me…

— Walter Kirn