MOTHER in Classic Quotes

1  My old mother, who's over eighty, can remember.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  I remember," the old man interrupted, "my mother.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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3  It took my mother half the morning to order dinner.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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4  Mrs. Sands was born Iliffe; Candish's mother was one of the Perrys.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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5  At my behest the miser leaves his hoard untouched; at peace the mother sees her children play.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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6  It was over sixty years ago, he told them, that his mother had given him the works of Byron in that very room.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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7  How often her mother had rebuked her in that very room--"but in a very different world," as her brother would remind her.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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8  Of his mother he remembered that she was very stout; kept her tea-caddy locked; yet had given him in that very room a copy of Byron.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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9  Tempted by the sight to continue her imaginative reconstruction of the past, Mrs. Swithin paused; she was given to increasing the bounds of the moment by flights into past or future; or sidelong down corridors and alleys; but she remembered her mother--her mother in that very room rebuking her.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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