Bayonets Quote by Félix J. Palma

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications…

— Albert Camus

...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy…

— Judith Ellen Foster

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

— Leo Tolstoy

“How to make his mother, whom he imagined to be the unhappiest person in the world, the happiest, was what drove him on.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“No one had asked about his life, the years aboard ship. As a child she had been fascinated by the way he would come…

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“In another life, another timeline, he would have cared as a son does for his mother. If she’d been born different. But as he…

— V. Theia

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so,…

— Ernest Jones

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious…

— Marcel Proust

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

— Mary Ann Shaffer

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

— Khaled Hosseini