China Quote by Victor Robert Lee

“Flowers grow beneath her feet, but she is not dead at all. The years have not diminished the Rice Mother. I see her, fierce…

— Rani Manicka

“Liliana stood staring at the posters, filling in the dark silhouettes with worn, grey faces. She imagined her mother, eyes dark and vacant and…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“She is still a bundle of engaging possibilities rather than a finished picture. Of the mother there is nothing to say, for that excellent…

— Edith Wharton

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

“My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in…

— Tammara Webber

“I am going to describe her life from the inside outward, from its core, the house as well, rooms in which life was gathered,…

— James Salter

“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went…

— Melody Lee

“I realized early that despite her gregarious and inherently buoyant disposition, a certain sadness resided in my mother. Even I, her only child, whom…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

“She cannot remember her mother's face... This is the woman who brought her into the world... This is the woman her father loved. Yet…

— Mark Haddon

“I have in my mind’s eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be; and in her whom I must call…

— Anne Frank

“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had…

— Charles Dickens

“They say she's a girl like a garden, it said. "All roses and lavender and spider mums. Too bright, too bright to be there.…

— Kelly Andrew