Best His Mother Thoughts
298 His Mother quotes by 239 unique authors
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...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if…
— John Updike
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A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother.…
— Robert Cormier
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
— Martha Gellhorn
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Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of…
— Michael Chabon
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One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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Tigerkit was nagging his mother. "Why can't I go out?" "You've just come in." "But it's a sunny day." "You need a nap." "I'm not…
— Erin Hunter
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His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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But then, his revenge had been more direct. He’d hunted down the ones who’d killed his sister and nephew – those who’d survived his mother’s…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory) Not really. My mom wasn’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his…
— Julia Quinn
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes…
— William Faulkner
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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could…
— Kate DiCamillo
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In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he…
— Greg Mortenson
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I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that…
— Breece D'J Pancake
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You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.
— Janette Rallison
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Akri? Can I keep him? See, he good eating. Lots of fat on this one. (Simi) No, Simi. You can’t keep the baby. His mother…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay…
— Barbara Mertz
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows…
— Aberjhani
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A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the…
— Jennifer Crusie
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The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not…
— Steven Pinker
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Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
— Isobelle Carmody
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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —…
— Maurice Sendak
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
— William Golding
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