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Quotes About Mother

The bitterness and sense of defeat she experienced at her mother's accusation never quite left her. Nor did her need to please her father.
~ Anne Sexton
she was one cocktail away from proving his mother right
~ Anne Taintor
Who fed me from her gentle breast And hushed me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.
~ Anne Taylor
Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?
~ Anne Ursu
There'll be no keeping Chickie from dancing, or dancing from Chickie. It will feed her and gnaw away at her, and in the end it will pull her away. For once a child has an obsession, she no longer has need of a mother
~ Anne Whitney Pierce
Everyone has the right to live her own life, NO parent can destroy the youth and joy of their child. They use all kinds of excuses to try and cover their selfishness but if the daughter or son do take the bit in their teeth and LIVE the mother always gets on allright.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
My mother felt that what she did was nothing special. If you find yourself in such a situation that's what you do. She never wanted attention; also not at family celebrations. But within the family, she was certainly not silent. She was calm and thoughtful. But she also had the most wonderful laugh.
~ Anne-Marie Voskuijl
My mother will hear you.
~ Annette Blair
Ma mère écrivait, vous pourriez venir vous reposer à la maison, n'osant pas dire de venir les voir pour eux-mêmes.
~ Annie Ernaux
La disposition de la cour s'est modifiée souvent au gré de ses désirs, les cabinets et le poulailler ont déménagé trois fois. Toujours l'envie de démolir et de reconstruire. Ma mère : « C'est un homme de la campagne, que voulez-vous.
~ Annie Ernaux
I have searched for my mothers love in all corners of the world
~ Annie Ernaux
All'inizio ho creduto che avrei scritto in fretta. In realtà passo molto tempo a interrogarmi sull'ordine delle cose da dire, la scelta e la disposizione delle parole, come se esistesse un ordine ideale, l'unico capace di restituire una verità su mia madre – ma non so in cosa consista –, e nel momento in cui scrivo non conta nient'altro per me che la scoperta di quell'ordine.
~ Annie Ernaux
Questa maniera di scrivere, che mi pare andare nella direzione della verità, mi aiuta a uscire dalla solitudine e dall'oscurità del ricordo individuale tramite la scoperta di un significato più generale. Ma sento che qualcosa in me oppone resistenza, vorrei conservare di mia madre delle immagini puramente affettive, il calore o le lacrime, senza dar loro un senso.
~ Annie Ernaux
My mother- her energy, her constant anxiety too. I feel the same tenseness, but in my writing.
~ Annie Ernaux
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
~ Annie Leibovitz
No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you–life.
~ Anonymous
You trust your mother, but you cut the cards.
~ Anonymous
To me, my mother is very beautiful and the epitome of a woman. She knows how to balance a busy professional life with family life.
~ Manushi Chhillar
I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.
~ Sudha Murty
My mother was a professor of English and History.
~ Sonu Sood
My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
~ George Emil Palade
Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
My mother was progressive in her thinking.
~ Asha Bhosle
When you do a film with somebody who's my age - which is always the role of a mother or a grandmother - despite of well-defined characters, you don't get to play a very large part as the main leads get prominence.
~ Suhasini Mulay