Mother Quote by Janet Benton Download Open image ““Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.”” — Janet Benton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting
“The tear stayed in her eye, never falling down her cheek, and then the left side of her mouth crept up into a half-smile.… — Nick Hupton Copy Share Image
“Mom was getting really worked up, and tears began to trickle down her cheeks. As I’m sure you know, it’s a really, really bad… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
“The tear on my mother’s cheek got larger and larger. It detached from her face and became a shiny globe, widening outward like an… — Fred Chappell Copy Share Image
“My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink. Our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears… — Cody McFadyen Copy Share Image
“I felt someone behind me. I stopped and looked back... There was Mom, crawling behind me, without saying anything... Her tears falling to the… — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
“A tear rolled down my cheek And more came down Until tears rolled down like a stream. My eyes were blind with tears for… — Calvin O'John Copy Share Image
“Mom's crying a bit, quietly, the way she always does. She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Tears secretly falling down the sides of my face. I didnt touch them. I cry in the dark, no one could tell” — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“I looked over at her face. I could see the light from my heartbeat on her tears.” — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.” — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing life make… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“So little is permissible for a woman—yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“We can pursue our true wants, Mill writes, only when doing so harms no one to whom we are obliged.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“Bitterness is poison, yes, but I hold a flask of it to my lips and drink.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“As if passion alone explained our predicaments. Our being female and unlucky—and, in my case, a near idiot in the ways of amorous men—must… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“Some force moves all living things to excel. Surely this proves we are endowed with bits of our Creator.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
