Quotes About Life

Mother's milk leads to everything.

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.

Kids are anchors of mothers' life

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.