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My Mother Quotes by Amy Tan
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
- 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,…
- Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
More My Mother Quotes
- 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
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot
- My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. — Drew Barrymore
- My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale… — Angela Bassett
- I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale
- When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way… — Halle Berry
- My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would… — Halle Berry
- My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't… — Sophie Ellis Bextor