Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It…

“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes.…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's…

— Neil Gaiman

“The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already in the…

— James Baldwin

“When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has…

— Aussiescribbler

With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days…

— Romain Gary

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

— William Wordsworth

I want to work for the poor in my country.

— Narendra Modi

“When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Kyle Minor

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half…

— Darrell Hammond

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

— Christopher Moore

“I also began writing letters to the editor in response to news coverage or issues of the day; one of them, about Islam and…

— Souad Mekhennet

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag,…

— Judy Grahn

I've been to 25 psychics so far. I've even gone to see a woman called 'the mother' who just hugs you.

— Lauren Tom