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Quotes About Mother

Not quite like my mother's, but still a real 'trip,'" Bigfoot confided, "though what I really go for here is the respect." "Didn't get much of that from your mom, huh?" Had Doc really said that or only thought it? He waited for Bigfoot to take offense, but the detective only went on. . .
~ Thomas Pynchon
Szereti a munkáját? - Nem, dehogy. Én egyáltalán nem szeretek dolgozni, hát maga? - Utálok! Az anyám magyar - tette hozzá -, és azt hiszem, ezért utálom annyira a munkát.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Mi tragedia es mi madre. Viviendo con ella, vivo en el ataúd de mis aspiraciones nonatas
~ Katherine Mansfield
Yes, it's hard to start seeing your mother as she is, hard to push aside all the resentment and anger that you may feel and see her as another woman. Hard, but worth every bit of the effort.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
That afternoon, I begin to learn the wisdom of keeping my feelings to myself, a lesson reinforced often during a childhood of female warfare and tricky, shifting alliances, so often that my genius for envasion at last approaches that of my mother. She may sleep with a mask, but by the time I am a teenager I have made one within myself, I have hidden my heart.
~ Kathryn Harrison
He stilled. "What did you say?" "A few years ago, Nancy took me to a store in New York to buy a vibrator." "Holy shit, Faith." "It's all right. Mom said it wasn't a sin." "You told your mother Nancy bought you a dildo?" "Of course. Wanna see it?" "God, no." "You know," she said, inching closer. "I can do it as many times as I want with that." "Faith, stop!
~ Kathryn Shay
living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts
~ Kathy Lette
the departing crowd. She giggled and jerked her thumb to where her mother and the stranger stood. 'Look at that! They're holdin' hands! Tell you what, May, we'll have a bet. I bet you ten bob our mam gets herself a feller before we go to university.' 'You're on, April
~ Katie Flynn
I have a hat for it, actually." Elliott made a vague gesture with one hand. "Well, it's more of a full-body suit, really." "Is that a euphemism for a condom?" "No." He marched past me and lay down on the bed. "My mother knitted me a willy-warmer a few years back when we were having a cold stretch. She felt I wasn't like to produce the grandchildren she desires if I had as she put it, frost-shriveled parts.
~ Katie MacAlister
I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.
~ Katie MacAlister
The needy child voice inside me said, If she says you're a nut, then you must be a nut. She's your mother, the one who always tells the brutal truth.
~ Kaylie Jones
Hidden in the pockets of the things that frighten him most is the realization that he doesn't like his mother. Once, he did, but she was different back then, full of love and light. Now she's a ghost playing at being alive, a faded sheet hung upon a coatrack, only there to ensure he doesn't become a ghost too.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
~ Keith L. Brooks
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
~ Ken Dodd
I don't think that anything I've done in my life would have been possible without my mother.
~ Ken Robinson
My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!
~ Kenny Rogers
I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me.
~ Bushra Rehman
My mother knew Allah accepted late namaazes the way teachers accepted late homework: begrudgingly, but glad we'd put in the effort.
~ Bushra Rehman
My mother turned her face up toward the highest branches and got a shiny look in her eyes.
~ Bushra Rehman
My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
~ Busy Philipps
When I was ten, I told her about my plans to play football. Most mothers would try to talk their son out of such a notion, but Mom encouraged me.
~ butkus dick
My Mother's maiden name was Marion MOON! I guess it was destiny.
~ Buzz Aldrin
The hero who clings to the mother is the dragon, and when the hero is reborn from the mother he becomes the conqueror of the dragon.
~ C.G. Jung
Wisdom dwells in the depths, the wisdom of the mother; being one with her means being granted a vision of deeper things, of the primordial images and primitive forces which underlie all life and are its nourishing, sustaining, creative matrix. Hölderlin, in his pathological ecstasy, senses the grandeur of the things seen, but unlike Faust he does not care to bring into the light of day all that he has found in the depths:
~ C.G. Jung