Quotes About Mother

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

MY MOTHER USED to say that blue eyes were bad luck, because you could see everything that a blue-eyed person was thinking, but I didn't heed the warning the first time I met Wyatt Armstrong.

and my mother raised me by herself, supporting us by hosting home parties to sell sex toys instead of Tupperware.

After all, the last thing Kenosi saw, before he closed his eyes forever, was his mother coming back to him.

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank.

When he was young, the lesson learned from his mother, as much by cuffs as caresses, was that love is action--what you do, not what you feel--but perhaps, he thinks now, it was a false lesson, and that love is something else altogether, something he knows nothing of. He sees it, this love, hovering like the Paraclete above the heads of a fig-leafed Cranach couple, streaming divine grace down upon them in burning rays. Where was his soul when this pentecostal fire was falling from the sky?

Oh, Ma, how little I understood you, thinking how little you understood.

Darwin knew that the mother of the blush was shame. For Darwin, shame defines our essential humanity. Silvan Tomkins views shame as an innate feeling that limits our experience of interest, curiosity and pleasure.

There is also enmeshment and boundary confusion between the daughter and mother. The daughter is often carrying the mother's repressed anger and sadness about the father. This feels overwhelming since these are deeply repressed emotions. Therefore, to starve and avoid eating is a protection against feeling these overwhelming emotions.

Children who are not loved in their very beingness do not know how to love themselves. As adults, they have to learn to nourish, to mother their own lost child.

She fell into the chair he had left vacant. "Don't sit in your father's chair, Amy," her mother said, not realizing that Amy's legs were worn out from riding a bicycle, while her father had done nothing but sit down all day.

Her eyes filled with tears when she thought of kissing Mamma and giving her the silver-framed photograph of Dana Andrews that she had bought at Woolworth's for her present.

With its green curtains and green carpet, with its green valences round its green arm-chairs, with its green tassels round its vase-bearing brackets, this spacious chamber, designed to pleasure their dead mother before either of them were born, was like a mausoleum to Ruth and Rodney.

Life hasn't always been fair, sometimes it has been very mean. I fell down along the way, I got wounds that couldn't be seen. But through it all my mother never left my side, her constant love is the reason my tears have finally tried. Thanks mom and Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Valentines Day. If you don't have that special someone and even if you do, go and spoil your momma!

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a...very brutal disciplinarian.

You are the sunrise that shines in my life day after day after day. I wonder what I would have done without you. Happy birthday, dearest mommy!

The bond that we share means everything to me. I would be a lost soul if it weren't for all the love you have showered upon me all my life. Happy Birthday, dear mom!

The mother who set the standard for family and lead the way becomes a role model for society.

My mother is more than a hero, more than a fearless women, more than a best friend, she's my life. I love her with all my heart and I will never ask for a better mother.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space

I'm Blessed to have a mother,who loves her children more then herself...Hope I can find someone like her to be with for the rest of my life..That's called unconditional Love.