Top Mothers Quotes

I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

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...

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's...

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was i...

My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth...

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stopped i...

Alice Miller writes that the child who suppresses his own feelings in order to accomodate a parent has been, in a sense, abandoned.'Later, when these feelings of being deserted begin to emerge in the...

My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.

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

The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's p...

MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.

Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had...

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.