Parenting Quote by Jo Walton

“You must meet old Rowbotham, Bertie. A delightful chap. Wants to massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy. Well, nothing…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.”

— Deepak Rana

“Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”

— Anonymous

“Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.”

— Terry Pratchett

“With King Lords, we had a whole bunch of folks who had our backs, no matter what. They bought us clothes and shit our…

— Angie Thomas

“there was a bed left in the palace that hadn’t been stripped. “Mom!”

— Shannon Hale

“God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,” he said bitterly. “We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?”

— Mary Shelley

“He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.”

— Eoin Colfer

“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for…

— Maryse Condé

“They massacred the servants before killing my parents. I saw it all through a knothole in the wood. As I said, my eyes were…

— J.R. Ward

“I longed for Mum in the most primitive way.”

— Gabrielle Zevin