Mom Quotes - Page 30

• She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.

  Lisa Lutz

  Husband, Gay, Jake

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Dad, Home, Night

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mother, Thinking, Ifs

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.4.

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• ‎"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

  Koushun Takami

  Dad, Way, Someday

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• Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head.

  Cate Tiernan

  Cute, Dad, Home

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.39, Penguin

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• Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

  James Patterson

  Lying, Calling, Bullets

  James Patterson (2005). “The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Imagine, Dare

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Dad, Angel

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.

  Rachel Caine

  Night, Rooms, Middle

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• Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Secret, Everyday, Special

  Lurlene McDaniel (2012). “The End of Forever”, p.136, Laurel Leaf

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• me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

  David Levithan

  Giving, Advice, Goldfish

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• I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Encouragement, Book, Practicals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Cousin, New York, Military

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• 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

  Andrea O'Reilly

  Mother, Children, Airplane

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• The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

  Richard Kadrey

  Secret, Looks, Afternoon

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, Book 3)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• Mom...In my next life I have to be your son again. Then, I will definitely be a kind-hearted son that you love I love you, mom. I love you, mom. There has never been a moment that thoughts of you left my mind. Mom. That you gave birth to me. Thank you.

  Kang Min-hyuk

  Drama, Love You, Son

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• On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

  Dave Franco

  Thinking, Hollywood, Rooms

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• I'm really thrilled to kind of be a role models for my daughters, and showing them the passion about what I do, and I get to go to work and I love to go to work. That's what I saw my mom doing my whole life.

  Sarah Rafferty

  Daughter, Mother, Passion

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• Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

  Atticus Shaffer

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  Kara Lindsay

  Daughter, Mother, Honor

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• The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Children, Lessons

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• Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

  Nicole Appleton

  Tattoo, Motherhood, Giving

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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  Padma Lakshmi

  New York, Kids, Cities

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• The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

  Jason Thomas

  Mothers Day, Husband, Jealous

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• My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.

  Amy Schumer

  Daughter, Believe, Angel

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