Mothers Quotes

But she loves her daughter, David can tell, loves her the way David's mother loved him, and sometimes David feels that same love he used to, except now it's coming from other places, other people, and it's a good thing the love is coming because he's beginning to think there aren't enough rules in the universe to bring his mother back.

~ Jerry Spinelli

There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.

~ Kevin Pietersen

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.

~ Saleem Sharma

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.

~ Erica Jong

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers are multi-taskers.

~ Sophie Kinsella

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

~ Irene Hunt

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

~ Emily Matchar

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

~ Elizabeth Cunningham

Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good name in the world lay in her hands. They would give her love, protection, even a sort of homage, but in return for that she must be what they wanted and needed her to be.

~ Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

~ Maya Angelou

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

~ Donna K. Childree

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

~ Anita Diamant

...do you have someone you can stay with? Hell, stay with your mother. The Pentagon doesn’t have the security system she’s g

~ Josh Lanyon

There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth,Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she was an unbearable detailOf the supreme celestial map,Of which I had been taught that there wasNo such thing.

~ Lucie Brock-Broido

What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.

~ Margaret Atwood

Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.

~ Ami Mckay

My mother's deathchanged the alchemy of food.Holidays run together nowlike ungrooved rivers. I forgetwhat they are for. I buy bakery goods.They look deadunder the blue lights.I don't do anything the way she taught mebut I get fat.I don't look like her and I don't soundlike her, but I stand like her.

~ Florence Weinberger

I’ve been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I’ve never complained. Shame on you. I’m embarrassed to have a son like you…can’t even look after his own bicycle. You just wait until your dad comes home. Then you’ll be in trouble, I can tell you that much.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer

~ Steen Langstrup

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

~ Mitch Albom

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

~ Adriana Trigiani

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

~ Gillian Flynn

There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before.

~ Jamie Mcguire

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

~ Boris Pasternak

But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say Hey, honey! just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and turning around and saying What? And her saying I love you. And me rolling my eyes like I just wanted to hurry up so I didn't miss the bus. I'd start going again and she'd say Hey, honey! and I'd pretend I was so annoyed 'cause she was wasting time and I had to go catch the bus. And how secretly it was my favorite part of every day.

~ Matt De La Pena

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there’s a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic.

~ Ben Fountain

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

~ Will Leamon

He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling

~ Ken Follett

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

~ John Green

As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I were being studied by flowers.

~ Pat Conroy

The daughter prays, the mother listens.

~ Amanda Downum

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.

~ Elizabeth Hunter

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

~ Mabel Hale

I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except my own children. I never had to give it to nobody else--and the one time I did it was took from me--they held me down and took it. Milk that belonged to my baby.... I know what it is to be without the milk that belongs to you; to have to fight and holler for it, and to have so little left.

~ Toni Morrison

Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)

~ Sally Harris

At the end of the day, can you look back and say to yourself, Today, my mother would be proud of me because I gave it all I had? If you can, you will have had a very good day. And if you can do this every day, you will have a very good life.

~ Patrick Henry Hughes

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

~ Steven Herrick

My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed. Any woman who could out-stubborn a dachshund deserved to be accorded the wary and respectful affection the dachshund gave her.

~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

~ Bill Cosby