Quotes about mother
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“I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Miracle of Forgiveness

Home

“She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Love, Stupidity, Fashion, Reading

“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Law

“Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?”

“Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Health, Drink

“Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)
Not really. My mom wasn’t the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)
(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Moms

“Blay’s head whipped around to his mate. “Really? You asked my dad?” Qhuinn nodded, then started to smile like a mother fucker. “It’s my one and only shot. So I wanted to follow protocol.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Smile

“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”

Dave Pelzer (1960) American author

Source: A Child Called "It"

“I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Feeling

“Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Hate, Animals

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

People, Beauty, Thinking, Animals

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Love, Sleep

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

Lois Lowry Gathering Blue

Variant: Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
Source: Gathering Blue

Pain

“If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Feeling, Appearance, Daughters

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Death

“JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

Women, Happiness

“I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Antsy Does Time

Thinking

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

Life, World, Beauty, Star

“it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ill Wind

Children, People, Nature

“Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Source: Forever . . .

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Love, Children, Funny

“Scent:
When she wore the hat, even many years later, she could always smell her mother's perfume & it was hard to remember she was supposed to be alone.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Soul, Baby

“There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.”

Elizabeth Peters The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Source: The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Pain

“In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and… mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Books, Way

“Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People

“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Children, Family, Imagination, Thinking

“No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Beauty, Imagination

“When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor”

Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire

Source: Soul of the Fire

Victory

“Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin.
I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Home, Daughters

“But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Stupidity, Sadness, Feeling, Dead

“Sweetest baby ever,” my mother said with a sigh.
“You mean second sweetest, right?” I corrected.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

Baby

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Source: For One More Day

Love, Mother's Day, For Parents, For Mother

“This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Problem

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Time

“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Children, Sleep

“I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.”

Mark Haddon (1962) English writer and illustrator

Lie, Personality

“I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am…. It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: Twisted

“Storiesto be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Life, World, Reading

“On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved
anything or anyone, I said, “Go to hell.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Love, Boy, Hell

“He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The Search

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Parent, For Parents

“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.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Night

“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Home, Heart Touching

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

People

“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly.

Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault.

And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.”

Alison Bechdel book Are You My Mother?

Source: Are You My Mother?

“I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Cars, Thinking, Help, Night

“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 book Number the Stars

Source: Number the Stars

World

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Love, Beauty, Feeling

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

Children, People, Feeling

“Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know.
Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Light, Time

“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat

Fish

“A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.”

Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer

Law, Hell

“I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could
have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Love

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Home, Reading

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: CAT'S EYE.

Life, Girl, Daughters

“The baby understands that its mother loves it. […] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

Source: First Snow on Fuji

Love, Understanding, Baby

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Dreams, Disappointment

“No moon, sun, diamond, hands —
fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.
pine green, pink glass, eye,
mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter

Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Sun, Sea

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Food, Memory, Mother's Day, For Mother

“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.”

James Rollins book Ice Hunt

Source: Ice Hunt

Nature, Baby

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

Helen Oyeyemi book Boy, Snow, Bird

Source: Boy, Snow, Bird

People, Imagination, Question, Reading

“Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

Winter, Past

“My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies.
My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.”

Lisa Lutz (1970) US author

Source: The Spellman Files

Life, Boy

“Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.”

Marjorie M. Liu (1979) American writer

Source: The Iron Hunt

“Look, he isn’t even concerned.”
I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.”
“I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Dreams

Tea

“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

Francesca Lia Block book Witch Baby

Source: Witch Baby

Pain, Beauty, Imagination, Flowers

“My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

Reality, Time

“My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, “Things that are covered don’t heal well.” Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

Source: Healing the Wounds of the Past

“Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.

-Jillian's mother”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Catch a Mate

Men

“These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with old food, these bruised
and swollen ankles,
my darkening brain,
they are nothing.
I am the same boy
my mother used to kiss.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Food, Boy, Kiss

“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Women, Friendship, Tea

“It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Way, Moms, Cry

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Part III: Growing Up, §II
Source: An Autobiography (1977)

Thinking

“Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Life, Angels

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, st. 29.

Art, Nature, Sense

“Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Big Cherry Holler

Love, Truth, World

“Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.”

Joanne Harris book The Lollipop Shoes

Source: The Lollipop Shoes

Home, Help, Parting

“A father's suspicion…' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'

~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

People

“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

For Parents

“Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her."

"If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“You never get mad,” she said when their server left the table. “Except at me.”
“That’s not true,” he said tightly. “Torie can get me going.”
“Torie doesn’t count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

Life, Madness

“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.”

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925–2006) Indonesian writer

Source: Gadis Pantai

“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."

--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

World

“My mother told me… if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.”

Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

People

“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Sleep

“… nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Light, Childhood

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