Estranged Mother Quotes

#1. There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#2. I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

Linda Hogan

#3. I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

Quentin Tarantino

#4. I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#5. For a moment, half blinded by dirt, I couldn't see Jamie at all. Then I spotted him. He was under the bear, one arm locked around its neck, his head tucked into the joint of the shoulder just under the drooling jaws.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could no longer even distinguish the difference between twenty-one and twenty-two or the difference between thirty-eight and thirty-nine.

Sarah Manguso

#7. Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

Ali Larijani

#8. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

John Henrik Clarke

#9. You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that

Webbie

#10. For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

Nicole Krauss

#11. If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

Esperanza Spalding

#12. I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.

Ljupka Cvetanova