Personally, I don’t bother with anything cheap—my mother…

“Too cheap, my dear fellow. Must Nature always be asked to straighten out the mess that man has made? And so, even you don't…

— Karel Čapek

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

— Thomas Jefferson

“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