Mother
Quotes - There is no teacher equal to mother
“His
home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his
mother was just another one of them”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
“My
father's love was always strong My mother's glamour lives on and on. Yet still
inside I felt alone, for reasons unknow to me.”
―
lana del rey
“If
I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its
purest form. Unconditional Love. ~~ Revathi Sankaran”
―
Revathi Sankaran
“Every
time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother.
Please go vegan.”
―
GaryLFrancione
“We
only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”
―
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Compassion
is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than
others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and
wide.”
―
Amit Ray
“Some
of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our
fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
“Piece
by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.”
―
Dorothy Allison, Trash
“-
You look fine.
-
Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's
nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't
be able to protect them from self-disgust. ”
―
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
“No
matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still
there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an
arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could
still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.”
―
Pat Cunningham Devoto, Out of the Night That Covers Me
“. .
. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am
yours. It is a rare parent who would offer a child such latitude and
understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter friend. I do love
you, dear Mama.”
―
Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love
“remember
this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you
have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't
anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make
adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but
don't let anybody change your mind.”
―
Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
“The
victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters,
wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings,
and surely that in itself is enough.”
―
Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
“My
mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven
so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she
stops and I begin.”
―
Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
“I
loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes
away, even if the person does.”
―
Anna Carey, Eve
“You
don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive
thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always
suspicious, always tearing you down and splitting your dreams straight down the
seams. When my first pen pal, Tomoko, stopped writing me after three letters
she was the one who laughed: You think someone's going to lose life writing to
you? Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and
her family would adopt me. My mother of course saw clean into the marrow of
those dreams, and laughed. I wouldn't write to you either, she said. She was
that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if
you let her. But I'm not going to pretend either. For a long time I let her say
what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.”
―
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Without
you there would be no me.
I am
everything reflected in your eyes.
I am
everything approved by your smile.
I am
everything born of your guidance.
I am
me only because of you.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry
for Every Day of the Year
“I
couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
―
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“I
sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had
to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be
faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.”
―
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
“
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into
darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.
I
think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the
same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was
born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever
since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.”
―
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
“My
mother's life was way too heavy for me.”
―
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
“Sometimes,"
I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and
pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of
her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much
in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her...”
―
Willa Cather, My Ántonia
“There
is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the
dignity of a father.”
―
Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
