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Quotes About Emotions

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
~ Amy Tan
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
~ Jane Birkin
I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
~ Shelley Long
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
~ Ruby Wax
I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.
~ Stromae
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
~ Anna Freud
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
~ Ralph Bakshi
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.
~ Gene Wilder
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
~ Ted Demme
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
~ Samuel Lover
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
~ Judith Viorst
Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
~ Gal Gadot
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
~ Elizabeth Kenny
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
~ Richard Dawson
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
~ Rachael Ray
My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.
~ Brandy Norwood
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
~ Courtney Love
We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.
~ Tarryn Fisher
I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.
~ Trevor Noah
My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.
~ Kellie Pickler
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
~ Carol Burnett