Sometimes, " I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty.. . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her... Willa Cather
It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.
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Thornton Wilder
A word mother, means a world to me.
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AuliqIce
Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain.
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Akansh Malik
STAINSWith red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of my mother blows in, riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord, riding on a honeysuckle breeze. Her teeth, the keys of a piano. I play her grinning ivory noteswith...
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Brenda Sutton Rose
You cannot commit the folly of underestimating the power of a mother.
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Girdhar Joshi
More Quotes By Willa Cather
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is...
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
