Top Mothers Quotes

My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the street.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and...

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl....

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 admin...

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

All mothers are slightly insane.

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 w...

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

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Tears on your mother's eyes are heavier than ocean waters

I'm a mother, said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, and I know what I know.

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.

Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of th...

How do I know you'll keep your word? asked Coraline.I swear it, said the other mother. I swear it on my own mother's grave.Does she have a grave? asked Coraline.Oh yes, said the other mother. I put he...