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Quotes About Mother

Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.
~ Denis Johnson
But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
Look, how the holly grows so thickly on this path: wonderful shiny green leaves, and the reddest of berries. Shall we gather some, for decorations? My mother will be pleased. Here is my penknife
~ Unknown
They're only Scotch pearls," he said, apologetically, "but they look bonny on you." His fingers lingered a moment on my neck. "Those were your mother's pearls!" said Dougal, glowering at the necklace. "Aye," said Jamie calmly, "and now they're my wife's. Shall we go?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Lord, that she might be safe, he prayed. She and the child.
~ Diana Gabaldon
We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget. But a breeze passing in a still room stirs my hair now and then in soft affection. I think it is my mother.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Grey's hair was like his mother's—fair, thick and slightly wavy, prone to disorder unless tightly constrained, which it always would be, if Tom Byrd was given his way.
~ Diana Gabaldon
What sort of mother talks about whores on her deathbed? Your mother wouldn't do that, would she? I have no idea," Grey said, "The situation has fortunately not arisen.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I reached for one, the heavy boar's-tooth bracelets clinking together on my wrist. I saw Murtagh's eyes on them and adjusted them so he could see the engraved silver end pieces. "Aren't they lovely?" I said. "Jenny said they were her mother's." Murtagh's eyes dropped to the bowl of parritch that Mrs. Crook had thrust unceremoniously under his nose. "They suit ye," he mumbled.
~ Diana Gabaldon
She and her mother both gave that odd impression of having been outlined somehow, drawn with such vivid strokes and delicate detail that they stood out from their background as though they'd been engraved on it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My mother never once asked me to stay at home, because she knew acting was something I really wanted to do. She was great.
~ Adrian Dunbar
My mother is a nutritionist, so we always ate well.
~ J. J. Redick
I never thought I would be able to play in Seoul, the city where my mother was raised and I was born, and I was able to perform for my aunt.
~ Michelle Zauner
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
~ Bill de Blasio
I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'
~ Rory Kennedy
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
~ Pat Conroy
My mom Dr Ravinder Kaur Sandhu, a gynecologist, is my hero and has always inspired me.
~ Harnaaz Sandhu
My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.
~ Julian Castro
If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.
~ Madelaine Petsch
My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.
~ Ananya Birla
My mom is an extremely well educated who worked throughout her life and she raised us.
~ Richa Chadha
Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.
~ Rob Pilatus
I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
~ Matt McGorry
My brother still calls me didi, which is so endearing. That's how our mother raised us.
~ Kubra Sait