Mothers Quotes

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, aft...

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and negl...

His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his...

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift...

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

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed ...

To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. Wh...

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not...

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not...

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

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over ...

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

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a des...

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mo...

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you sa...

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo...

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

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

When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her...

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

How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear i...

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killin...

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ca...

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be ...

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceles...

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is...

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have...

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you...

When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to ...

Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis whic...

Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray ha...

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

The Patrician took a sip of his beer. “I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I ne...

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation...

I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more ...

The best thing she was, was her children.

Moominmamma had got up very early to pack their rucksacks, and was bustling to and fro with wooly st...

Now you can all have a wish -- the Moomin family first!"Moominmamma hesitated a bit. "Should it be s...

Oh!" said Moominmamma with a start, "I believe those were mice disappearing into the cellar. Sniff, ...

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are h...

Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subjec...

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what h...

Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be fou...

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save f...

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And...

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...

Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the wo...

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Hav...

Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is f...

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

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

Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He ha...

...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happin...

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

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noti...

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. T...

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

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

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mo...

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

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but...

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some orde...

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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

Why would you family think about it?""Oh, my mother's the only one that counts, and she likes you ve...

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousan...

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

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ...

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that lu...

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die...

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if ...

My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if yo...

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gift...

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their...