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Quotes About Attachment

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
~ Sigmund Freud
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
~ Robert Bloch
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.
~ Tyler Perry
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
~ Camille Paglia
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.
~ Jodi Picoult
My mother was my first jealous lover.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.
~ Park Gye-Ok
Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
~ Bill Forsyth
Men often marry their mothers.
~ Edna Ferber
Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.
~ Georgina Chapman
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
~ Jane Austen
I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.
~ Janet Fitch
There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.
~ Peter Sagal
I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.
~ Martha Wainwright
My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
~ Mason Cooley
The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.
~ Anthony Liccione
You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
~ Frank McCourt