Best His Mother Lines
298 His Mother quotes by 239 unique authors
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about…
— Sonya Sones
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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
— C S Forester
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On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and…
— Haven Kimmel
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It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in…
— Sigmund Freud
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If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.
— Judith Viorst
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Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
— Jasper Fforde
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For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in…
— Christopher Moore
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into…
— Kate DiCamillo
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I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment,…
— Jane Austen
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Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right…
— Amy Hempel
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If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?
— Steven Wright
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Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away",…
— Margaret Wise Brown
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Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
— John Connolly
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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
— Evan Esar
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I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp
— Tamora Pierce
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Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment.…
— C.S. Lewis
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both…
— Sherman Alexie
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I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
— Jack Kerouac
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Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless…
— Jack London
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The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did…
— Milan Kundera
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A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.
— Mitch Albom
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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
— Margaret Atwood
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Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill,…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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