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Mother Quotes by Amy Hempel
- I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly.…
- I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her…
- When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger…
- 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…
- The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann