Top 36 Maman Quotes
#1. The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days ... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone De Beauvoir
#2. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again.
Albert Camus
#3. I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.
Isabel Allende
#4. The house was cozy, with a fire burning in every fireplace. The familiar scents of tea brewing in the samovar and Maman's warmed cherry brandy smelled like love to me.
Robin Bridges
#5. My maman said I was an old soul, caught up in a past life, which I'd never been able to shake, from the way I dressed, to my shop, and my dreamy obsession with the past. Maybe she was right. Perhaps that's why I found the loosening of traditions so heartbreaking. It
Rebecca Raisin
#6. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.
Roland Barthes
#7. I noticed Maman and Papa dancing. Papa looked like he'd rather be shot, but Maman was very happy.
Robin Bridges
#8. You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm."
"Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
Georgette Heyer
#9. Maman!
The word seems to come out of me all on its own. I think it's strange my mouth would do that. The rest of my head knows she's never there.
Claire King
#10. Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman's belongings.
Began the day by looking at her photographs.
A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended).
To begin again without resting. Sisyphus.
Roland Barthes
#11. Emilienne wore Maman's wedding dress. Just after the ceremony, Emilienne glanced in the mirror. She saw not her own reflection but a tall empty vase.
Leslye Walton
#12. My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#13. Where is your maman?
I don't know.
I think we've gone and lost her, Pea. Papa's voice dissolves into the colours behind my eyes.
I'm sorry Papa. I don't know how to find her, I say.
Claire King
#14. It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
Nicole Jordan
#15. Your maman was in my room last night."
"And I was not." His tone was glum.
Sharon Cameron
#16. Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
Albert Camus
#17. Maman walks ahead, leaning back as she goes down the hill, walking so fast her hair can't keep up.
Claire King
#18. It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
Albert Camus
#19. Given Fanon's subsequent traumatic encounter with the white gaze ('Look, maman, a negro'), it is ironic that it was he and Manville who gazed at the children and could not take their eyes off them. They had never seen a girl with truly red hair, or such a blond boy, and they were fascinated.
David Macey
#21. Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
Albert Camus
#22. In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
F. Sionil Jose
#24. You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...
Rachel Caine
#25. Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order
that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)
Alain De Botton
#26. There is great power in our words, because they
are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.
Molly Friedenfeld
#27. Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.
Jerry Seinfeld
#28. Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The
Tom Clancy
#29. My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.
Roseanne Barr
#30. I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
Bernie Mac
#32. I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
Jamie Wyeth
#33. I moved from the holy land (Israel) to the land of opportunities (USA)
Batya Sabag-Maman
#34. I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
Lexa Doig
#35. In front of her the cat Greebo, glad to be home again, lay on his back with all four paws in the air, doing his celebrated something-found-in-the-gutter impersonation.
Terry Pratchett
#36. The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time. Like most colossal disasters.
Mary Doria Russell
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