Quotes by Authors - Page 317

Children are angels.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Was it possible this one would be a son too? She hoped so, but not because she favored men. Her husband modeled the seriousness, the stoicism, that she hoped her sons would inherit, but she had nothing to teach a daughter. She could teach her to dream—say, to be a painter, as she herself had been trained—and then teach her to let it go. Teach her to cloister herself in dark hallways, admiring how the light fell through the rice-paper doors while knowing that there was no point in putting it on canvas.
Shawna Yang Ryan
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
Mothers tend toward right on most things.
Kate Morton
I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.
Neil Gaiman
Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.
Jo-Ann Mapson
Why would you family think about it?""Oh, my mother's the only one that counts, and she likes you very much from what she's seen of you.""So you had me inspected?""No-dash ti all, I seem to be saying all the wrong things today. I was absolutely stunned that first day in court, and I rushed off to my mater, who's an absolute dear, and the kind of person who really understands things, and I said, 'Look here! here's the absolutely one and only woman, and she's being put through a simply ghastly awful business and for God's sake come and hold my hand!' You simply don't know how foul it was.
Dorothy L. Sayers
His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his closet door to discover that Zap the Cat, having penetrated the security of Vorkosigan House through Miles's quisling cook, had made a nest on the floor among his boots and fallen clothing to have kittens. Six of them.Zap ignored his threats about the dire consequences of attacking an Imperial Auditor, and purred and growled from the dimness in her usual schizophrenic fashion. Miles gathered his nerve and rescued his best boots and House uniform, at a cost of some high Vor blood, and sent them downstairs for a hasty cleaning by the overworked Armsman Pym. The Countess, delighted as ever to find her biological empire increasing, came in thoughtfully bearing a cat-gourmet tray prepared by Ma Kosti that Miles would have had no hesitation in eating for his own breakfast. In the general chaos of the morning, however, he had to go down to the kitchen and scrounge his meal. The Countess sat on the floor and cooed into his closet for a good half-hour, and not only escaped laceration, but managed to pick up, sex, and name the whole batch of little squirming furballs before tearing herself away to hurry and dress.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid.
Sarah Zettel
Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…
Louisa May Alcott
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
Ben Aaronovitch
Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.
Agatha Christie
I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
Janet Fitch
Is Lisa going to the prom?'I shelved my worries for the moment. 'I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact.'You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things.'I don't want to mess with the prom at all, Mom.'She ignored me, placidly eating popcorn, piece by piece.'Some girls in my high school class did that and had a wonderful time. They weren't lesbians or anything. Not that it would matter if they were.'That's nice, Mom. I'm glad you're so open-minded.' I grabbed my Coke and the popcorn bowl and headed for the stairs, because I could go my whole life without ever hearing my mother talk about lesbians again.Maybe you could take Justin to the prom,' she called after me, laughter in her voice. 'He is such a hottie.'Shoot me now.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
Louisa May Alcott
She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
Elizabeth Gaskell
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
Louisa May Alcott
Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!
Booth Tarkington
She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
Eloisa James
Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.
L.M. Montgomery
That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.
Teri Hall
But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.
Jacqueline Kelly
But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.
Kiera Cass
Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
L.M. Montgomery
This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
Cammie McGovern
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Amy Tan
It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
Jodi Picoult
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Louisa May Alcott
Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?
John Green
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
James Rollins
A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it's power.
Jamie McGuire
A good mother is irreplaceable.
Adriana Trigiani
She was a monster, but she was my monster.
Jeanette Winterson
Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
Mitch Albom
Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!""I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.
Tamora Pierce
But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
John Green
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Marguerite Duras
Tom adjusted his sword and checked his knives and his pistol. If there had been anyone to see his face, they would have seen a man at peace with himself and the world. And if they were wise they would know that such a man was the most dangerous of all opponent - one who fights to preserve love rather than perpetuate hate.
Jonathan Maberry
You have to fight the odds in life to be able to reach a greater height.
Lailah Gifty Akita
She may be trained, but I'm fighting for my family, my home, my freedom. She's fighting for a goddamn paycheck.
Amie Kaufman
There are monsters all around usThey can be so hard to seehey don't have fangs, no blood-soaked clawsThey look like you and me. But we're not defenselessWe're no damsels in distressTogether we can fend off the attackAll we gotta do is watch our backs.Your body is beautiful how it isWho you love is nobody's business We all contemplate life and deathIt's the poet who gives these thoughtsbreath.The monster is strong, don't be mistakenIt thrives on fear-keeps us isolatedBut together we can fend off its attackAll we gotta do is watch our backs.In your darkest hourWhen the fight's made you wearyWhen you think you've lost your powerWhen you can't see clearlyWhen you're ready to surrenderGive in to the blacklook over your shoulderI've got your back.
Gayle Forman
The future glory far outweigh the present troubles.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You have the power inside of You. Do not be scared to wield it, for the battles You face give no allowances for your cute little sense of innocence and ignorance. They will overrun and vanquish You at the slightest chance they get. So, fight You must to stay up or be prepared to go down.Remember this though: With great power comes great responsibility and true power is wielded efficiently in time and with wisdom.
Ufuoma Apoki
Before you take up that fight against history, do remember that she has a track record of beating 'champions' like you. Therefore, it's best to stick with the flow, and go with what works for everyone. But . . . In the event you do decide to go against the convention, all you need is to get your heart straight, and your eyes fixed on the target. You might just be the underdog that will surprise history.
Ufuoma Apoki
The advantage to fighting the evils that are in plain sight is the fact that it is quite easy to win-over the "opposition".
Mike Klepper
Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!
Syed Ather
Its been enough enjoying now, let's begin achieving.
Amit Kalantri
All great men endure tribulations, to achieve their goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
The most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable.
Sunday Adelaja
Face it, nobody owes you anything. What you achieve, or fail to achieve is directly related to what you do or fail to do.
Anonymous
A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results.
Steven Redhead
You don’t achieve success, you attract success.
Farshad Asl
In order to achieve anything,you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas
Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?
Anthony T.Hincks
We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that?
Lizbeth Dusseau
What are you doing?” Her voice shook.“Whatever I want, sweetheart.
Cherise Sinclair