Non Mushy Mothers Day Quotes

#1. For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.

William S. Burroughs

#2. My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. Life goes on. The world spins out another day. The mystery of human life and hope goes on. And here and there, the luminous light that shone out from a carpenter in Nazareth glimmers and flickers in the darkness. And we hope again for what life might become. The soul waits.

John Ortberg

#4. Almost anyone can lie on their back, close their eyes and think of France."
"It's England."
"Why would anyone think of England during sex?

Tiffany Reisz

#5. The breath of being is been able to share your bread.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson

#7. His motto of "try, take, and top" had changed. Oh, he'd tried Tate all right, and they'd both done a helluva lot of taking, but for once in his life, Logan didn't feel the desire to win. He didn't need to come out on top. What he wanted was Tate's trust - his absolute trust.

Ella Frank

#8. I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

Reeve Carney

#9. If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

Jay Perry

#10. I've never been a yes man.

Rogers Hornsby