My Mother Once Told Me Quotes

#1. My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

David Levithan

#2. My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Barry Deutsch

#3. My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

Armistead Maupin

#4. My mother once told me my opinion was the only one that mattered. I've lived by tat advice ever since.

A.P. Heath

#5. My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever.

Glen Duncan

#6. I am not soft. I do not have that luxury. I am the wolf in girl's clothing; all snarls and claws. My mother once told me: be gentle, be kind. She forgot to mention that the world was full of beasts, and if I wanted to survive I would have to become one myself.

Nichole McElhaney

#7. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.

Beatriz Williams

#8. My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

Mira Grant

#9. When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. You see, when you hang your head like that, darling, people think you don't like them!

Liane Moriarty

#10. A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Chynna Phillips

#11. Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.

Janet McNally

#12. Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.

Bill Maher

#13. Life is also meaningful without being married', she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, 'one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make

Helen Rappaport

#14. Men hate things to change," her mother had once casually told her. "Unless it's their idea, of course. But you can make them think it is their idea, sometimes.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

Brian Herbert

#16. My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

Angela Carter

#17. My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'" She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy.

Pat Conroy

#18. My mother had told me once when I was little and had a friendship fall apart that some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end.

Cora Carmack

#19. It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.

Jane Smiley

#20. A priest once asked Mother Teresa if she would pray that God would give him clarity in a choice he had to make. She told him, God may never give you clarity. All you can do is trust.

Matthew Kelly

#21. I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

Emily Giffin

#22. Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

Christopher Pike

#23. Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them. Denise instinctively knew the truth of her mother's statement, yet it was hard to reconcile her words with the love she felt for Taylor McAden.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

Vladimir Nabokov

#25. I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar.

Penny Reid

#26. My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens

#27. One of the biggest comforts was that her mother once told her, "Never be afraid to talk with Jesus and tell Him your troubles. He's the best friend you'll ever have.

JoAnn Durgin

#28. As I once told your mother, I do not accept trying. Trying is not good enough. Change. You can.

Jane Lark

#29. My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

Phyllis Diller

#30. My mother told me once that, a long time ago, there were people who wouldn't buy genetically engineered produce because they viewed it as unnatural. Now we have no other option.

Veronica Roth

#31. I noticed my mother's face assume an expression she reserved for unspeakable horror. I had seen this look only twice before: once when she was caught in the path of a charging, rabid pig and then again when I told her I wanted a peach-colored velveteen blazer with matching slacks.

David Sedaris

#32. Once, I started listing off all the people that I truly cared about. When I got to number seven, Penelope told me I either needed to whittle down my list or stop making friends immediately. My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.

Rainbow Rowell

#33. A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

Wendy Wasserstein

#34. Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury.

Anchee Min

#35. Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it seem logical. As if he was lying in a hospital bed with cancer rather than rotting in a prison cell for rape and murder.

Anais Torres

#36. Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she'd rather die than go back to a man she didn't love.

Brenna Yovanoff

#37. Inej's mother had told her that gifted wire walkers were descended from the People of the Air, that they'd once had wings, and that in the right light, those wings could still be glimpsed on the humans to whom they showed favor.

Leigh Bardugo

#38. My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Wesley Clark