Famous quotes containing the words called and/or mother:
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)