Mother Quote by Brit Bennett Download Open image ““She was not a mother but she had a mother's gift of rushing to the worst possible outcome.”” — Brit Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gift Rushing Mother Mother Gift Mother Mother Parenting Rushing Worst
“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.” — K.X. Song Copy Share Image
“i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can’t be easy having… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Watching her mother’s decline had been slow and painful: the worst thing she had ever had to witness.” — Victoria Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“I wish I could have been better for her, more of what she deserved. She was a great mom, but that wasn’t me” — Bry Ann Copy Share Image
“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“She always felt nervous around strange men, even though she’d known the man who’d hurt her. If a man who knew you could hurt… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“but somehow, his seeing her afraid was an intimacy she could not bear.” — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“If you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?” — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?” — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“These were the moments when adulthood was formed, not a birthday but the realization that she was now the one pouring a handful of… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“Would they ever spend time like that together again? Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn’t over yet or did the fact… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn’t want was a haunting.” — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“After all, before you could play a song, you had to learn each note of the scale. A newspaper article was made up of… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“Now they were slow and deliberate, the way hurt people loved, stretching carefully just to see how far their damaged muscles could go.” — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“that type of secret, although, we have to admit, it had felt different. Tasted different too. All good secrets have a taste before you… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with you brothas,” Bill said. “You got lazy. You know why? Because you know these young sistas will pick up the… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“She felt the sly type of racism here, longer waits for tables, white girls who expected her to walk on the slushy part of… — Brit Bennett 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
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis 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
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow 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