Mother Quotes

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

~ Toba Beta

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.

~ Naomi Stadlen

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

~ Angela Carter

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

~ Mary Balogh

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

~ Augusten Burroughs

You loved me before seeing me,You love me in all my mistakes,You will love me for what I am.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

~ Dani Shapiro

Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.

~ Amit Ray

Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]

~ Dani Shapiro

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.

~ Elizabeth Peters

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.

~ Dani Shapiro

I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more than having an impossible one. [p. 47]

~ Anne Lamott

The school is a mother

~ Edmondo De Amicis

I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I’d be distracted or I wouldn’t be as committed as the rest of you, but who’s more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who’ve got nothing left?

~ Bill Blais

But it's not healthy!” replied the Hag. “A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?”“You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.”“Yeah,” sighed the Maid, “but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.

~ Kate Griffin

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

~ Lionel Shriver

I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was a fact of my life--intractable and sad--that our relationship had been a failure. Still, with her prognosis came one last chance to be her daughter. [p. 163]

~ Dani Shapiro

I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.Then—I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.Then—I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.Then—I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.

~ Megan Mayhew Bergman

A person who has 'tidied up' has both the words and a tidy area to show for it. It is much harder to find a word that describes the giving-up-things mode of attention a mother is giving to her baby.

~ Naomi Stadlen

I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great values, a lot of tennis lessons, and the best she could do. Unfortunately, the best she could do was terrible, thee the Minister of Silly Walks trying to raise an extremely sensitive young girl, and my heart remained hardened toward her. [p. 46]

~ Anne Lamott

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.

~ Ann Brashares

Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish

~ Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

I WAS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN EVER SINCE SHE PASSED AWAY , MY MOM

~ Atul Srivastava

We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how bad things really were. I thought of how I'd gotten used to awful, how after my dad died the planets kept on spinning and I got up and ate breakfast every morning and kept going to school. Something happens and it's terrible and you think you can't live another day, but then your mother gets used to it and you get used to it and you both keep on living, and you're not sure if that getting-used-to-things is good or the way life should be.

~ Margaret Mcmullan

well, I haven't heard from you since you went to pick up the treadmill so I am assuming some big, burly, longshoreman has absconded with you and I'll never see you again. And you didn't even get to run on your treadmill!

~ Debbie Grant

... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

~ June Jordan

She used to call me on the phone and scream, “I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, I AM GOING TO CHOP YOU INTO PIECES SO SMALL, YOU WILL BE A POWDER AND NO ONE WILL FIND YOU.

~ Scaachi Koul

Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future

~ Manal Al-Sharif

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

~ Marcel Proust

There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.

~ Stephanie Bishop

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

~ Ali Land

And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary.

~ Donna Tartt

...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had one mother, and lost her, I was not in a hurry to acquire another--not even a young and beautiful one with whom I could play Oedipus to both our hearts' content. If I could manage it, I had no intention of being anybody's own dear laddie, ever again.

~ Robertson Davies

Once, she fell off of a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched her fall.

~ Sarah Kay

my mother is a good mathematicianshe was able to divide 3 eggsinto 8 mouths equally every day

~ Ymatruz

We can think a healed thought and speak a healed word, speak of and to the two who are One, our MotherGoddessFatherGod. The hopeful but misty thought that I've a Mother there will give way to the experience that I've a Mother here. We will know Him, Her, Them, Us, the Divine Family unbroken, bringing part to whole and whole to part, singing the indispensable She who had been forgotten but it now found, singing the wholeness, singing the holiness.

~ Carol Lynn Pearson

a storm that walked on legs of lightning,dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.

~ Ted Kooser

While reading the Times of India each morning, my father spares a minute for the cartoon by R. K. Laxman. While my mother is, like a magician, making untidy sheets disappear in the bedroom and producing fresh towels in the bathroom, or braving bad weather in the kitchen, my father, in the extraordinary Chinese calm of the drawing-room, is dmiring the cartoon by R. K. Laxman, and, if my mother happens to be there, unselfishly sharing it with her. She, as expected, misunderstands it completely, laughing not at the joke but at the expressions on the faces of the caricatures, and at the hilarious fact that they talk to each other like human beings.

~ Amit Chaudhuri