Top 31 Motherless Quotes
#1. You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child.
Heather O'Neill
#2. Though sympathy tugged at her, Sophie's imagination made fearsome leaps. The grieving widower. The destitute governess. A motherless child. It had all the makings of a scintillating novel.
Laura Frantz
#3. But if God does not give us children, knowing as He does how thankful we should be for them, it is surely because He has some good reason for it. Perhaps there are now in the world some fatherless and motherless little ones that He is saving for us till we can afford to take them
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#4. She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to
Kristin Hannah
#5. The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#6. Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo
Christopher Golden
#7. If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I become.
Robin Hobb
#8. Okay, Troy ... you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you ... cause ... like you say ... she's innocent ... and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now ... this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.
August Wilson
#9. It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.
Jodi Picoult
#10. As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will - what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up.
Maryse Holder
#11. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times are hard. Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy on the run, and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman
Christopher Paul Curtis
#13. But then, oh, my blessed, he smiled. I guess from that moment I knew I was going to marry Joseph Wojtkiewicz
God, pope, three motherless children, unspellable name and all. For when he smiled, he looked like the kind of man who would sing to the oysters.
Katherine Paterson
#14. motherless mothers with their skinless mysteries.
Edna O'Brien
#15. It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.
Bob Dylan
#16. Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.
Bernard Cornwell
#17. I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love.
Philippa Gregory
#18. Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said that the round-the-clock nature of infant and toddler care sometimes brought up familiar emotions from the past.
Hope Edelman
#19. In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
Louis De Bernieres
#20. At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad.
Rabindranath Tagore
#21. Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That
Wally Lamb
#22. What kind of motherless soul can so easily and savagely murder thousands and proclaim it all to be in the name of righteousness? What kind of righteousness annihilates lives with such contempt and in such a grand scope that it leaves an entire world mourning?
Leslie Haskin
#23. Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
Gary Krist
#24. Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.
Jandy Nelson
#25. Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
Darren Shan
#26. Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.
Rob Davis
#27. We appear to have found a place where safe and dangerous are the same thing.
Rob Davis
#28. Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.
Rob Davis
#29. Everything is made, but only people make things. I mean, how can a thing exist if it isn't made ? How can a shape be a shape if it isn't shaped ?
Rob Davis
#30. It feels like cheating to look at a person when they're sleeping, Like you can see their innocent self.
Rob Davis
#31. Beyond the black is the light.
Rob Davis
