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Mother Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I…
- Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and…
- ..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long…
- Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to…
- my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you…
- It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and…
- The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
- little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
- I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they…
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
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- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
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- 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