Mother Quote by Ali Smith Download Open image ““And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?”” — Ali Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting
“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.” — Amy Wilson Copy Share Image
“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how… — Meg Mitchell Moore Copy Share Image
“And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way.” — Tracy Holczer Copy Share Image
“And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.” — Brooke Hauser Copy Share Image
“I asked my mother when we first met, but she evaded the answer like she does everything else.” — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“...he had simply typed the words something beautiful into the Google images box. Up came a picture of some leaves against the sun. A… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
