Quotes About Mother

She'd heard it from him all her life; just once she wanted to hear him say that Mom should try harder. "I will," she said, completing their little fairy tale as she always did. And she would try. She always did, but she and her mother would never be close. There was just too much water under that bridge.

How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother's? "They take me prisoner instead," Mom said, still staring out the window.

Loreda knew she couldn't blame her mother for Daddy abandoning them, or not entirely. That was the sad, sorry truth she'd come to after a long and sleepless night. Daddy had left them all.

The most amazing part of this science-fiction moment was that her mother actually believed what she just said.

She was mad at the world, and somehow that meant she was mad at her mom most of all.

I always craved love. The unconditional, even unearned kind. I needed someone to say it to me. Not to sound poor me, but my mother never said it.

pâtisseries, and suddenly I remember Maman handing

The steady snip snip snip of the scissors seemed to hypnotize Ruby, that and the comforting familiarity of her mother's touch.

You are an inspiration, Teresa, in so many ways. Somehow you balance it all—being a soldier, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, a wife, and a mother—and you do it with grace and courage. You are truly an example of everything that is right with our country.

cómo podía encontrarse? ¿Cómo podía una mujer entender su propia historia sin haber conocido antes la de su madre?

her mother's fear, and the shame that was its silent twin.

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

Vianne knew about the kind of talon grief that wouldn't let go; she had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone.

Unlike me, Bobby will never know the nagging ache of an absent father; he will have the loss of his mother inside him, like a thin shadow on a bright day, standing close, but he won't have that dragging sense that he was unloved, somehow, unworthy

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep in her bones.

is present wherever love can be found, her mother used to say.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Having a mother who cares about you and wants you to be happy must really be rough.

It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

It's about soldiers who don't think for themselves, they just follow orders. The song got him into a lot of trouble. Like what? Ironically, he was banned from Ghana. And because of the song, the very soldiers he spoke out against were ordered to kill his mother. Did they? The zombies did.

Thought It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind her and held it in his hand. Her mother cut it off and hung it from a chandelier. She was Queen. Mazishta. Her hair was black and her handmaidens dressed it with pearls and silver pins. Her flesh was golden like the desert. Her flesh was pale like cream. Her eyes were blue. Brown.