James Joyce Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  James Joyce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

• What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

  James Joyce

  Mother, Mean, Kissing

  James Joyce (2013). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Mother, Children

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

  James Joyce

  Mother, Water, Tea

  Ulysses (1922) p. 12

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