Arthur Golden Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Water, Stones

• I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Memories, Ocean

• If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Turtles, Agreement

• Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "A talk with Arthur Golden". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 23, 1999.

• I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Father, School

  Random House Author Q&A. From the Trade Paperback edition, www.randomhouse.com.

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