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Quotes About Mother

My mom was dead. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. Everything I ever imagined about myself had disappeared into the crack of her last breath. I
~ Cheryl Strayed
As I passed them, I felt the presence of my mother so acutely that I had the sensation that she was there; once I even paused to look around for her before I could go on.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The kindest and most meaningful thing anyone ever says to me is: Your mother would be proud of you.
~ Cheryl Strayed
When you say you experience my writing as sacred what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar is the temple I built in my obliterated place.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Small things such as this have saved me: How much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.
~ Cheryl Strayed
You need a man to support, inspire. . .understand you. Help you be the best person you can be, banker, mother, both, whatever. And until you find a man you trust enough to do that, why settle?' I
~ Chetan Bhagat
Suddenly, in this lap of luxury, I felt lonely. I missed home, my hostel room and my mother, all at the same time. It is funny how class works. The moment you are placed in a higher one, a part of you feels terrified and alone.
~ Chetan Bhagat
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~ Chief Joseph
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. One's a Republican, one's a Democrat. The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
~ Robert Frost
Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.
~ Chinese proverb
But there was never child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837
Trust is the mother of deceit.
~ English proverb
The printing press is the mother of errors.
~ Italian proverb
Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky; Hundreds of shells on the shore together; Hundreds of birds that go singing by; Hundreds of bees in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dew-drops to greet the dawn; Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover; Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn; But only one mother the wide world over!
~ George Cooper
Who fed me from her gentle breast, And hush'd me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
Who sat and watched my infant head, When sleeping on my cradle bed, And tears of sweet affection shed? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
When sleep forsook my open eye, Who was it sung sweet lullaby, And rock'd me that I should not cry? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other!
~ Forest Houtenschil, c. 1979
A mother is the truest friend we have; when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends, who rejoiced with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~ Author unknown, c. 1875
For mother's kiss — sweeter this Than any other thing.
~ William Allingham, "Wishing"
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
~ Olivier Theyskens
in the bowl distill a word most bitter, marah , a word bitterer still, mar , sea, brine, breaker, seducer . . . till marah-mar are melted, fuse and join and change and alter, mer, mere, mère, mater, Maia, Mary, Star of the Sea, Mother.
~ H.D.
Many a time I have seen my mother leap up from the dinner table to engage the swarming flies with an improvised punkah, and heard her rejoice and give humble thanks simultaneously that Baltimore was not the sinkhole that Washington was.
~ H.L. Mencken
that the gentleman who owned it was vastly civil and pleasing. Soon after their return home, she told her mother that she had no longer any dislike to
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie