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Quotes About Mother

My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.
~ John Legend
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.
~ Kathryn Stockett
Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.
~ Lenny Kravitz
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother
~ Anna Freud
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
~ Stephen Crane
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
~ Doris Lessing
My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
~ Ben Affleck
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
~ Mother Teresa
His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She cut herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she'd almost let slip. Suzy's wedding ring clicked against the steering wheel as she gave it a hard smack. "I'm going to kill him! He's been telling that hooker story again, hasn't he?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm not beautiful. My mother—" "I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you're paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don't see it your way." "That's because you didn't know her." "Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?" "Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They'd do anything for her." "This man will do anything for you.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Insulting to my mother, of course, considering how
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The love radiating from Mariah's face, her hand curled protectively across her belly, all of it so tender. These sketches were Annie's true legacy. They were concrete evidence that Annie had been created in love. Maybe that's what her mother had wanted her to see.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Mrs. Hale, still leaning against the door, had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to speak a piece. Lewis often wandered along and got things mixed up in a story. She hoped he would tell this straight and plain, and not say unnecessary things that would just make things harder for Minnie Foster.
~ Susan Glaspell
He threatened you, Mary? And your mother?" "It was just the liquor talking, I'm sure, Fred. Even that Sherman lot wouldn't harm a woman." "For his sake, I'd better not see any of them try. Or even speak of it.
~ Susan Higginbotham
and daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.
~ Susan Howatch
I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.
~ Susan Juby
Got anything to eat?" I asked. "You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.
~ Susan Juby
He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.
~ Susan Kay
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
~ Susan Orlean
When I miss my mother these days, now that she is gone, I like to picture us in the car together, going for one more magnificent trip to Bertram Woods.
~ Susan Orlean
My feelings about women in general have been shaped by mother in particular--and Placidia, while nearly always loving and approachable to her children, raised us on a Spartan diet of independent thought, moral integrity, and self-reliance that has shaped our relations with the world, making our paths more difficult but the journey more meaningful.
~ Susan Rivers
B]ehind the mother fighting for her son's life was the priestess of the forest and the cup.
~ Susan Rowland
Mentally tease apart the threads that keep you connected to your mother. See that those threads, those feelings, that you experience with her are what find the two of you -- but they do not have to weave the tapestry of your entire life.
~ Susan Schneider