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Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful! -- Anne Bishop
What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. 'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!' "Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble. -- Rick Riordan
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful... -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What-what do you want? Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'Only a thousand times? Percy murmuredOh, good...I thought we were in trouble. -- Rick Riordan
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. -- Alexander Smith
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. -- Aeschylus
What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. -- Robert Breault
When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway. -- Marsha Norman
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights. -- Dorothea Benton Frank
When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like Madea, and Night, Mother, and Sam Shepard, and all that kind of stuff. Thats what I really wanted to do. -- Rachael Harris
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.' -- Marsha Norman
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights. -- Connie Chung
Night is the mother of counsels. -- George Herbert
Night is the mother of thoughts. -- John Florio
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. -- H. G. Wells
It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is. -- Fred Savage
My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother. -- Ronnie Spector
When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes. -- Graham Kennedy
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. -- Sergei Parajanov
I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby. -- Henny Youngman
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. -- Tallulah Bankhead
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. -- Barry Humphries
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." -- Rabindranath Tagore
Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine. -- Mary Howitt
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. -- Nick Santino
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year. -- Pat Conroy
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. -- Lorna Luft
My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins. -- Lea Michele
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children. -- James M. Barrie
Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs. -- George Carlin
The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night. -- Shmuley Boteach
A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night. -- Janet Fitch
On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes. -- Patsy Cline
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village cafÃ©. -- Augusten Burroughs

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