Quote by Margaret Mitchell

“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex…

— Alice Hoffman

“Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.”

— Erik Bundy

“Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband…

— William Shakespeare

“I was stunned when my father picked her up to soothe her. I’d never seen him show any fatherly affection before. He spoke to…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“There was something almost tasty and almost sexy in letting the annoying boy be punished by her husband. In standing blamelessly aside while the…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“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

“It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the foundation of early races.”

— Willa Cather

“I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my…

— Joe McNally

“Did your parents spoil you when you were small, Miss Burchill?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘No, I don’t think they did.’ ‘I don’t think they…

— Kate Morton

“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always…

— Jane Smiley