Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon...

When God Created Mothers”When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of “overtime” when the angel appeared and said. “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” And...

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.

I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!

And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.

Does your ma know you’re this silly?” she demanded tartly.He nodded, comically sad. “The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But” — with an exaggerated change of mood — “I...

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have...

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

But mothers lie. It’s in the job description.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

Hideo,” said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, “you haven’t found any kind...

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

A mother’s love: the sacred relationship of affording a nanny so as to be tolerated as a granny.

Our fathers were demons,’ Catarina said. ‘Our mothers were heroes.

If my mother’s intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case...

My mama is my feeding bottle… She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!

All mothers are slightly insane.

Well darlin’, that’s the sign of a life being lived. I think we’re all tired when we’re giving it our best.

But she loves her daughter, David can tell, loves her the way David’s mother loved him, and sometimes David feels that same love he used to, except now it’s coming from other places, other people,...

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...

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.

I’d wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice that said the world was dangerous and safety was always the first measure...

(…)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, “I choose not to,” or “it all sounds a bit vile,...

…A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you...

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did – that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were...

When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper; outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a...

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at...

Mothers are multi-taskers.

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the world is insignificant compared to the truth and purity of one small man...

In Sweden, we’ve moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man…..poetry and fiction are based upon woman’s love, and the movements of history...

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

Right, except I’m not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

That was his mother. When she wasn’t crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

You are doing God’s work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, –even–no, -especially–when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who...

I’m a mother,” said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, “and I know what I know.