Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Home, Used

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2009). “I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven”, p.8, Harper Collins

• Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Young, Mother Died

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2011). “There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories”, p.6, Harper Collins

• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Father, Piano

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