Mother Quotes

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

I love you every day, Mom

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.