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Mother Quotes by Kathryn Stockett
- As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid…
- Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's…
- I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid…
- I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody,…
- Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
- Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word…
- Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some…
- Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night…
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