"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

Mother, Vocabulary

22

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

Exlpore more Mother quotes

"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Mother, Love, Life, Lesson

"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Mother, Loss, Prayer, Crime

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Mother,

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Mother, Heart, First

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Love, Beauty

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Blessing, Love

"That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself."

Nick Hornby, English Writer

Mother, Chaos, Family, Emotion, Contradiction

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

Anna Friel, English Actress

Mother, Being, Empowerment, Feeling

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

Ziyi Zhang, Chinese Actress

Mother,

"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."

Zoe Saldana, American Actor

Mother, Beer, Gossip, Sisters

Explore more quotes by Lynn Johnston

"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."

Church

"Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do."

People

"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him."

Heart

"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"

Power

"I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world."

Water

"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."

Life

"It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now."

Time

"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."

Father

"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."

People

"And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry."

Poetry