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Mother Quotes by Amy Tan
- A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
- My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother…
- My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being…
- Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some…
- People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life.…
- I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."
- Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi…
- My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
- I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and…
- I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
- I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
- My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I…
- Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother,…
- But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
- Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father,…
- I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant…
- And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the…
- How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see…
- I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually…
- Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the…
- For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
- So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the…
- My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off…
- A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the…
- I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent,…
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- 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