MOTHER in Classic Quotes

1  My mother was the plantation cook.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

2  Of my father I know even less than of my mother.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

3  My mother, I suppose, attracted the attention of a purchaser who was afterward my owner and hers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

4  As soon as freedom was declared, he sent for my mother to come to the Kanawha Valley, in West Virginia.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

5  My mother, of course, had little time in which to give attention to the training of her children during the day.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

6  In company with my mother, brother, and sister, and a large number of other slaves, I went to the master's house.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

7  My mother, who was standing by my side, leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

8  In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we were all declared free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

9  Soon after we got settled in some manner in our new cabin in West Virginia, I induced my mother to get hold of a book for me.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

10  My mother's husband, who was the stepfather of my brother John and myself, did not belong to the same owners as did my mother.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  I have been unsuccessful in securing any information that would throw any accurate light upon the history of my family beyond my mother.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

12  But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

13  One of my earliest recollections is that of my mother cooking a chicken late at night, and awakening her children for the purpose of feeding them.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

14  One night I recall that we camped near an abandoned log cabin, and my mother decided to build a fire in that for cooking, and afterward to make a "pallet" on the floor for our sleeping.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

15  Though I was a mere child during the preparation for the Civil War and during the war itself, I now recall the many late-at-night whispered discussions that I heard my mother and the other slaves on the plantation indulge in.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

16  In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother's side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

17  So far as I can now recall, the first knowledge that I got of the fact that we were slaves, and that freedom of the slaves was being discussed, was early one morning before day, when I was awakened by my mother kneeling over her children and fervently praying that Lincoln and his armies might be successful, and that one day she and her children might be free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.