Discipline Quote by Margaret Mitchell

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.”

— Loretta Chase

“Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.”

— Megan Hart

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother’s eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and…

— C.S. Lewis

“Her look was easy to read—she couldn’t understand, we’d always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to…

— Deb Caletti

“It's like a natural law that my mother can never look anything less than obscenely beautiful. Even though she was wearing jeans and a…

— Rachel Hawkins

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Mama had indeed risen up with a ferocity I didn’t think she possessed. I’d been wrong about her my whole life. Her quietude was…

— Marie Benedict

“But this woman was all mother. A stern one, perhaps, and autocratic at times, and somewhat hard--but after all and in spite of all,…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

“In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very…

— Louisa May Alcott