Books Quote by Bea Balint

“You are lucky in your looks,” she says. “Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender, skin like…

— Philippa Gregory

“My mother was the most beautiful woman in the world. I say that not because I am her daughter, and not because she was…

— N.K. Jemisin

“my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way.”

— Ann Patchett

“She kisses my cheek and slides the panel over the mirror. I think my mother could be beautiful, in a different world. Her body…

— Veronica Roth

“I’m not beautiful. My mother—” “I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Look, life isn’t always wonderful. There are ugly parts. You know that more than anyone. What you do with those ugly parts is what…

— Jennifer Foor

“We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong.”

— Julie Anne Long

“Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way.”

— Tracy Holczer

“No matter how ugly you are; there is always someone who sees his heaven in your eyes.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.”

— Reyna Pryde

“You have always had beautiful eyes to your mother and me. In fact, the day I first saw your mother’s eyes in 1972, I…

— Charles Benedict

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life…

— George Washington