Betty Smith Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel.

  Betty Smith

  Daughter, Mother, Growing Up

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

• Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Strong, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

• And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Country, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

• Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Son, Wife

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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