Stephen King Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

  Stephen King

  Fathers Day, Mother, Cat

• My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

  Stephen King

  Mom, Mother, Brother

• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

• As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Victory, World

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

• There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Tired, Thinking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Fall, Pride

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

  Stephen King

  Mother, Doe, Way

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

• Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Mother, Country

• I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Dad, Stories

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

• Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's father getting shot by the hunter and Bambi's mother getting crisped. But that's the way it's always been. This is the sort of material that appeals to kids. Kids understand it instinctively. They grip it.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Daughter, Father

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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