Quotes About Mother

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare.

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing—I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

His father had been his sole supporter, telling him to live for his love for Dora, in precise opposition to his uncle's silent opprobrium. Dora was relegated to invisible duties deep within the kitchen. Gaspar lived equally invisibly in the Lobo household, invisibly loved by his father, who invisibly loved his mother.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

That there might be any practical divergence between my mother's situation and her own did not seem to occur to Aimee, and this was one of my earliest lessons in her way of viewing the differences between people, which were never structural or economic but always essentially differences of personality.

I don't mean that my mother didn't love me but she was not a domestic person: her life was in her mind. The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management

I knew my mother was in the process of becoming, or trying to become, "an intellectual," because my father often threw this term at her as a form of insult during their arguments.

On her first day at the school her mother had explained to her she was about to enter the devil's lair, filled her satchel with two hundred copies of the Watchtower, and instructed her to go do the Lord's work

And perhaps for my mother this dream was the truth, and just by dreaming it she felt she had brought it to pass.

A different kind of history from my mother's, the kind that is barely written down—that is felt.

Time is compressing for the mother, she has a short distance left to go. She means to squeeze the past into a thing small enough to take with her. It's the daughter's job to listen. She's no good at it.

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

My mother is responsible for whatever success I have achieved today.

My mum was an anti-racist activist in the 70s and 80s.

For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

I've seen all of my mom's films. She's the reason why I do almost anything.

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the women in my life have been much better than the men.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.