I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'
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Related My mother used to fight with me. She said, 'If you don't work, how will you eat?' I never refused my... LALITA DABERIA The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, bu... OSHO And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ... GLORIA VANDERBILT My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. WILMA RUDOLPH I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i w... MAYA ANGELOU When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it ... SHIRLEY TEMPLE Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That... NANCY E. TURNER My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would... ISIDOR ISAAC RABI You know my mother thinks the waltz is indecent." "Your mother would find the sight of a ... ELIZABETH MAY My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend." His Mother says: "Why did yo... VERONICA ROTH Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches tha... TIFFANY REISZ My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag... WESLEY CLARK I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th... VING RHAMES There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother... JOAN CHEN [But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ If you try singling me out to my mother, she'll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she... LEE PEARSON Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my l... BRISTOL PALIN You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life... MIMI KENNEDY There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-man... DOUG WRIGHT I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER My mother and my sister and my friends were there. I knew, however, that it wasn't the end and that ... CONSTANTINE MAROULIS ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa... GASTON LEROUX My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ... MARIE ANTOINETTE A smart woman would have walked away then. She would have lit a match and set fire to the entire clu... A. ZAVARELLI My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. ELIZABETH KENNY Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is... SONU NIGAM But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't... GLORIA STEINEM (Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you for out o' question you we... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY My mother is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh... ANGELA MOORE My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my... EDDIE MATHEWS We'd get in the car to go to the beach and mother would have rosary. My sister and I knew that was t... PATRICIA BRYANT I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsom... CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK My mother is my teacher Her words make me richer I thank you oh my mother May you gro... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '... KEVIN JAMES Original Poems for Infant Minds My Mother Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some prett... ANON. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. BEVERLY CLEARY My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No.... RAYMOND E. FEIST It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' JENNY DOWNHAM I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ... SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy... LYNDON B. JOHNSON My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it. ESAI MORALES And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely... DANIEL HANDLER You have to go through channels and get permission from my athletic director [Laing Kennedy] before ... JIM CHRISTIAN My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted... RUDOLPH A. MARCUS She has changed my whole life after my mom passed away; she's like my mother, she is. GLORIA GOMEZ I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and... GEORGE CARLIN My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was ... KYM WHITLEY When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ... FRED ROGERS I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother. CHER My point is, I would never hurt you or your family.” I raised my chin at him. “If you tried... ILONA ANDREWS I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother... TAYE DIGGS My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;... QUENTIN BRYCE I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas. CAROL BURNETT Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "... SUSAN WIGGS There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor... ISABEL ALLENDE Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.” GWENN WRIGHT If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a ... ANNE BRONTë The Mole and His Mother
A mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure tha... AESOP When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you.... MICHAEL MORPURGO My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ... GINGER ROGERS She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left... ANITA GATTIS My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should... ANDY KAUFMAN I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... RUBEN BLADES I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de... MARIE ANTOINETTE I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr... MARIE ANTOINETTE I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for ... FRED ROGERS Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav... TIG NOTARO My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me. LIZ MURRAY Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... MARTIN AMIS I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be... QUINCY JONES I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem... ALICE PAUL You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my child... PAULA ZAHN I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL S. REBELLO You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and bran... HOLLY HOOD My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and s... MARIE ANTOINETTE You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t... J.D. SALINGER You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her... TONY DUNGY My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li... RENEE FLEMING Hate me if you want, you have my permission. AERIAL NICOLE MITCHELL My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own m... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well?... ANN TAYLOR Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it... ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized ... NIKKI SIXX You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each ... A.A. MILNE Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have ... DIANA LOPEZ I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS
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TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT