“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
Variant: Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.
Source: For One More Day
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
— Amy Tan, book The Bonesetter's Daughter
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
Last update Nov. 2, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin." by Amy Tan?
Amy Tan89
American novelist 1952Related quotes
“And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning”
José Saramago book The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 53 (Vintage 2003)
“Begin, sweet Babe, with smiles thy Mother know.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.”
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.
Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“The beginning is always today.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer