Mothers Quotes

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

~ Mitch Albom

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

~ Jeanette Winterson

A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it's power.

~ Jamie Mcguire

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

~ James Rollins

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

~ John Green

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

~ Louisa May Alcott

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

~ Jodi Picoult

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

~ Amy Tan

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

~ John Irving

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

~ Cammie Mcgovern

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

~ L.m. Montgomery

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.

~ Kiera Cass

But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

~ Jacqueline Kelly

That's your mom, right? Pathik smiled. She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.

~ Teri Hall

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

~ L.m. Montgomery

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

~ Eloisa James

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

~ Booth Tarkington

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.

~ Louisa May Alcott

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Is Lisa going to the prom?'I shelved my worries for the moment. 'I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact.'You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things.'I don't want to mess with the prom at all, Mom.'She ignored me, placidly eating popcorn, piece by piece.'Some girls in my high school class did that and had a wonderful time. They weren't lesbians or anything. Not that it would matter if they were.'That's nice, Mom. I'm glad you're so open-minded.' I grabbed my Coke and the popcorn bowl and headed for the stairs, because I could go my whole life without ever hearing my mother talk about lesbians again.Maybe you could take Justin to the prom,' she called after me, laughter in her voice. 'He is such a hottie.'Shoot me now.

~ Rosemary Clement-Moore

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

~ Janet Fitch

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

~ Agatha Christie

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight, I'm happy to be the exception.

~ Rebecca Makkai

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…

~ Louisa May Alcott

Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.

~ Megan Mayhew Bergman

Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid.

~ Sarah Zettel

His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his closet door to discover that Zap the Cat, having penetrated the security of Vorkosigan House through Miles's quisling cook, had made a nest on the floor among his boots and fallen clothing to have kittens. Six of them.Zap ignored his threats about the dire consequences of attacking an Imperial Auditor, and purred and growled from the dimness in her usual schizophrenic fashion. Miles gathered his nerve and rescued his best boots and House uniform, at a cost of some high Vor blood, and sent them downstairs for a hasty cleaning by the overworked Armsman Pym. The Countess, delighted as ever to find her biological empire increasing, came in thoughtfully bearing a cat-gourmet tray prepared by Ma Kosti that Miles would have had no hesitation in eating for his own breakfast. In the general chaos of the morning, however, he had to go down to the kitchen and scrounge his meal. The Countess sat on the floor and cooed into his closet for a good half-hour, and not only escaped laceration, but managed to pick up, sex, and name the whole batch of little squirming furballs before tearing herself away to hurry and dress.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Why would you family think about it?Oh, my mother's the only one that counts, and she likes you very much from what she's seen of you.So you had me inspected?No-dash ti all, I seem to be saying all the wrong things today. I was absolutely stunned that first day in court, and I rushed off to my mater, who's an absolute dear, and the kind of person who really understands things, and I said, 'Look here! here's the absolutely one and only woman, and she's being put through a simply ghastly awful business and for God's sake come and hold my hand!' You simply don't know how foul it was.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

~ Jo-Ann Mapson

Mothers tend toward right on most things.

~ Kate Morton

Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.

~ Terry Pratchett

Was it possible this one would be a son too? She hoped so, but not because she favored men. Her husband modeled the seriousness, the stoicism, that she hoped her sons would inherit, but she had nothing to teach a daughter. She could teach her to dream—say, to be a painter, as she herself had been trained—and then teach her to let it go. Teach her to cloister herself in dark hallways, admiring how the light fell through the rice-paper doors while knowing that there was no point in putting it on canvas.

~ Shawna Yang Ryan

Children are angels.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Breakfast was the full whammy: eggs, rashers, sausages, black pudding, fried bread, fried tomatoes. This was clearly some kind of statement, but I couldn't work out whether it was See, we're doing just grand without you, or I'm still slaving my fingers to the bone for you even though you don't deserve it, or possibly We'll be even when this lot gives you a heart attack.

~ Tana French

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

~ Jim Butcher

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was surprised with thunder that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was as deep as the sea.

~ Saroo Brierley

This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and also cuddles... but because in an interesting and and maybe an eerie and other worldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known.

~ Maya Angelou