J. D. Salinger Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Memorable, Mean

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Winter, Thinking

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

• All mothers are slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Insane

• It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Fun, Crazy

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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