Mother Quotes

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

~ Dianna Hardy

The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mother’s

~ David Foster Wallace

Where does repressed pain and rage go in a body? Does the wound of daughter turn to something else if left unattended? Does it bloom in the belly like an anti-child, like an organic mass made of emotions that didn’t have anywhere to go? How do we name the pain of rage in a woman? Mother?

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Sometimes through a smile it can be a lot of pain, but no matter what, mothers love will keep you strong.

~ Auliq Ice

You are never old enough to lose your mother.

~ Linda Kinnamon Rn

My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.

~ Deyth Banger

Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.

~ George R.r. Martin

He felt entombed and stifled and desperately craved oxygen. He vainly raised the question: Why have you forsaken me?'Call my mother,' he yelled. He had meant to say: I'm dying. Please call a priest.The shadowy Presence, who had been in a panic, rushed over to him and, disregarding the fact that it was live, pushed the cable aside.'You're alive,' the Presence said in breathless tones. 'Mamma's here to help.'The elevator continued to descend, creating a vacuum. Barnes gasped for breath.'Breathe in, breathe out,' the Presence urged. She tapped his pulse rapidly with two fingers. 'Come on, you can do it. One, two, three. Breathe in. Mamma's here to help.' ... In his delirium he thought that indeed his mother was here to help. However, in all of Barnes's twenty-nine years of so-called living, his mother had never come so comfortingly close as this.

~ Joseph G. Peterson

We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.

~ Jeremy Griffith

It’s a baby. A baby can’t be without a mother.

~ K. Weikel

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

~ Thomas Merton

...nightly rolling of Mother Ocean (It's all right, it's all right; everything is calm; we are just eating every thing that moves in here, dry people)...p.57

~ Barry Hannah

No matter how old you are, you always want your mother’s love and acceptance. I guess I’m hoping one day I’ll get it back.

~ Hilary Grossman

Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.

~ Connie Kerbs

I theory take a later of course without O and you will see that all are build with I.

~ Deyth Banger

Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.

~ Fredrik Backman

Mother, death, love -- everyone shares, unequally, those three poles of fascination.

~ Kamel Daoud

Looked from different aspects hate just cause more problems it doesn't solve. I hate dogs, I hate black people, I hate yellow people, I hate this person, I hate my father, I hate my mother. And in the end what happens??It gets even more worse, what are you planning better life or a worse life - that's my question?!

~ Deyth Banger

We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I’m fifty and I don’t know nothing. What about it? Do I stay with him? I want to, I think. I want… well, I didn’t always… now I want. I want some fat in this life.”“Wake up. Fat or lean, you got just one. This is it.”“You don’t know either, do you?”“I know enough to know how to behave.”“Is that it? Is that all it is?”“Is that all what is?”“Oh shoot! Where the grown people? Is it us?”“Oh, Mama.” Alice Manfred blurted it out and then covered her mouth. Violet had the same thought: Mama. Mama? Is this where you got to and couldn’t do it no more? The place of shade without trees where you know you are not and never again will be loved by anybody who can choose to do it? Where everything is over but the talking? - Violet Trace and Alice Manfred

~ Toni Morrison

For many years, February was a difficult month for me after the death of my parents. My father died in February, just a week before my mother's birthday. For years their loss cast a pall over the month. I missed them terribly. But time has changed things. I see my father often in the face of my son and I run into my mother daily each time I pass the hall mirror.

~ Mary Morrell

For the record, telling your boyfriend that your not-as-dead-as-you-might-have-implied mother has been arrested for murder doesn’t go over well

~ Tracy Weber

It starts with my mother….Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That’s why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems.

~ Chuck Wendig

Mother and wife are saints,If they are not together

~ A G Maran

A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight.

~ James Patterson

Mother are wife are saints, If they are not together

~ A G Maran

Aires and Echo Emerson. Their mother must have hated them to give them names like that.

~ Katie Mcgarry

The president is not at all like the powerful icon I imagined her to be. She’s more like I remember Amma: small and delicate with a sari that dances behind her as she walks. Of course, the president is clad in white, the color that shows eternal mourning of a lost child, while Amma never wore white. She wore reds and oranges and deep greens. Colors of celebration, of happiness. Perhaps she wears white now. Now that I am dead to her.

~ Holly Bodger

They hate me because I am the worst thing possible. I am the bad mother.But here's a secret: in America there are no good mothers. They simply don't exist. Always, there are a thousand ways to fail at this singularly important job. There are failures of the body and failures of the heart. The woman who is unable to breastfeed is a failure. The woman who screams for the epidural is a failure. The woman who picks up her child late knows from the teacher's cutting glance that she is a failure. The woman who shares her bed with her baby has failed. The woman who steels herself and puts on noise-canceling earphones to erase the screaming of her child the next room has failed just as spectacularly. They must all hang their heads in guilt and shame because they haven't done it perfectly, and motherhood is, if anything, the assumption of perfection.

~ Nayomi Munaweera

You need to call on your best and strongest self.

~ Kate Mulgrew

She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

~ Nadia Hashimi

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.

~ Angela Flournoy

Legends are lessons, they ring with truths.

~ Elinor

I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that had never known anything else, and for a moment there I swear we saw each other with a clarity that nothing can alter, not time, not heartbreak, not death.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Time is the mother of truth.

~ Khalid Masood

A woman steps out of the back door after an hour of him sitting. Younger than either of us, blonde with a tinge of gray at her temples, the light creases of age in the corners of her eyes, beautiful in the untouchable way of mothers who are our exemplars for what we will admire in women when we come of age.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

~ Brandon Sanderson

My aunt just stood there, and in that second it was as though the world and the future collapsed down into a single point, and I understood that this—the kitchen, the spotless cream linoleum floors, the glaring lights, and the vivid green mass of Jell-O on the counter—was all that was left now that my mother was gone.Suddenly I couldn’t stay there. I couldn’t stand the sight of my aunt’s kitchen, which I now understood would be my kitchen. I couldn’t stand the Jell-O. My mother hated Jell-O. An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm.I ran.

~ Lauren Oliver

Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

~ Nalini Singh

Thank you, Mom, for the way you managed yourself during the childish, mean, selfish, insensitive, irresponsible, unreasonable, hateful moments I put you through. From your example I learned to be patient, positive, kind, selfless, sympathetic, reliable, sensible, and loving. You have my endless appreciation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich