Quotes About Books And Mothers

#1. By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him
every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance
all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us
lavishly. - Author: Beth Moore

#2. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#3. We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need. - Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. Dying on some court schedule or some prison schedule ain't right. People are supposed to die on God's schedule. - Author: Bryan Stevenson

#5. Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. - Author: Rita Rudner

#6. It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it. - Author: Marly Youmans

#7. Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. - Author: Lara St. John

#8. (mother) She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. - Author: Emily Giffin

#9. Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers. - Author: A.W. Exley

#10. He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday, and then we all told each other that we thought it would be a fine day to-morrow; and George said the crops seemed to be coming up nicely. - Author: Jerome K. Jerome

#11. Few great men could pass personnel. - Author: Paul Goodman

#12. Africans ... their tired. They're tired of being the subject of everybody's charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform. - Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#13. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard. - Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect. - Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

#15. Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. - Author: Paullina Simons

#16. You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult. - Author: Robin Yount

#17. And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them. - Author: John Steinbeck

#18. Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: ', with love from Momma. - Author: Vincent Starrett

#19. If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction. - Author: Marian Keyes

#20. You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody. - Author: Julieanne O'Connor

#21. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you. - Author: Elie Wiesel

#22. 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books. - Author: L.A. Weatherly

#23. They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age. - Author: Ann Brashares

#24. Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. - Author: Anita Brookner

#25. I'm Kieran. You must be a hell of a thief because you stole my heart from across the room, - Author: Jayde Scott

#26. Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for. - Author: Katherine Mansfield

#27. In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and ... mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it. - Author: Bill Cosby

#28. I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything. - Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar