Mother Quotes

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

My mother was very protective of her four boys.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother.

Really people only like the food that their mothers make.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.