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Quotes About Mother

Bart's mother shuffles onto the porch dressed in a colorful muumuu, house shoes, and a bright yellow scarf. A matching silk flower adorns the fluffy gray bun atop her head.
~ Unknown
at us all on the front deck. Aaron's mom was sitting on the front benches with her and Mom. She looked just like Aaron, thin and pale, with jet
~ Liz Kessler
He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.
~ Liza Minnelli
I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
~ Lizz Winstead
the sacred principles of life have never been written down: they belong to the heartbeat, to the rhythm of the breath and the flow of blood. They are alive like the rain and the rivers, the waxing and waning of the moon. If we learn to listen we will discover that life, the Great Mother, is speaking to us, telling us what we need to know." —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
~ Lois Lowry
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
~ Lois Wyse
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.
~ Unknown
My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
~ Loni Anderson
The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.
~ Unknown
My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.
~ Unknown
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
~ Unknown
The horrors of war pale beside the loss of a mother." -Anna
~ Unknown
I turn melancholy when I lie out in the sun. I mourn my unhappy origins. I feel sad for my mother, frustrated as a wife, disdainful now that she's a widow.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
The "basis of Feminism," Sanger said, had to be a woman's control over her own body, "the right to be a mother regardless of church or state."15
~ Jill Lepore
Good, because your mother says you're not getting out of helping in the kitchen just because you're a faerie princess now. She got you those long kitchen gloves so that you can still wash dishes.
~ Jim Butcher
She could be a pain in the ass, but she was one gutsy chick. Her kids were lucky to have a mother like her. A lot of moms would say that they would die for their children. Charity had placed herself squarely in harm's way to do exactly that.
~ Jim Butcher
Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.
~ Jim Butcher
To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass.
~ Jim Harrison
It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.
~ Jim Lynch
Say hello to my mother and father...the Earth and Space.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Il vento di marzo è un vento malato, diceva sempre mia madre. Eppure è piacevole, odora di linfa e ozono e del sale di mari lontani. Un buon mese, marzo, con febbraio che vola via dalla porta sul retro e la primavera che aspetta a quella principale. Un buon mese per un cambiamento.
~ Joanne Harris
Oh, she understood wine, my mother. She understood the sweetening process, the fermentation, the seething and mellowing of life in the bottle, the darkening, the slow transformations, the birth of a new vintage in a bouquet of aromas like a magician's bunch of paper flowers. If only she had had time and patience enough for us. A child is not a fruit tree. She understood that too late. There is no recipe to take a child into sweet, safe adulthood. She should have known that.
~ Joanne Harris
I know you don't remember her much, Narcisse, but your mother was very strong. Stronger than anyone I've known; strong and sweet as peach liqueur .
~ Joanne Harris