I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

Quote by Madeleine L Engle

Topics: Family Love Quotes, Love Quotes, Mothers Quotes

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it...

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It...

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It...

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection...

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection...

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than...

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than...

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the...

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make...

We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make...

I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close...

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are...

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought...

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad...

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad...