Mother
Quotes - When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon
“My
mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody
who was worse off than you.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“But
what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find
you. Girls are cool that way.”
―
Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
“Of
course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from
very different points of view.”
―
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
“When
you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no
one remembers her on Mother's Day”
―
Sam Ewing
“Turn
off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that
smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes
when she's leaving.”
―
Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
“It
is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be
successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to
nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as
the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only
does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an
environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for
popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of
the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s
needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during
the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place
where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving
example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching
in the home—and how apparent when neglected!”
―
Ezra Taft Benson
“When
did my house turn into a hangout for every grossly overpaid, terminally
pampered professional football player in northern Illinois?"
"We
like it here," Jason said. "It reminds us of home."
"Plus,
no women around." Leandro Collins, the Bears' first-string tight end
emerged from the office munching on a bag of chips. "There's times when
you need a rest from the ladies."
Annabelle
shot out her arm and smacked him in the side of the head. "Don't forget
who you're talking to."
Leandro
had a short fuse, and he'd been known to take out a ref here and there when he
didn't like a call, but the tight end merely rubbed the side of his head and
grimaced. "Just like my mama."
"Mine,
too," Tremaine said with happy nod.
Annabelle
spun on Heath. "Their mother! I'm thirty-one years old, and I remind them
of their mothers."
"You
act like my mother," Sean pointed out, unwisely as it transpired, because
he got a swat in the head next.”
―
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can
“I
missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving
for air underwater. Lying awake, I tried to recall all my best memories of
her—to freeze her in my mind so I wouldn’t forget her—but instead of birthdays
and happy times I kept remembering things like how a few days before she was
killed she’d stopped me halfway out the door to pick a thread off my school
jacket. For some reason, it was one of the clearest memories I had of her: her
knitted eyebrows, the precise gesture of her reaching out to me, everything.
Several times too—drifting uneasily between dreaming and sleep—I sat up
suddenly in bed at the sound of her voice speaking clearly in my head, remarks
she might conceivably have made at some point but that I didn’t actually
remember, things like Throw me an apple, would you? and I wonder if this
buttons up the front or the back? and This sofa is in a terrible state of
disreputableness.”
―
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
“Sometimes
being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
―
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Woman of Independent Means
“A
queen could leave her throne.
But
a mother never leaves her son.”
―
V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
“There
were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an
intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew
that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now
infinite, unyielding.”
―
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
“one
of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the
opportunity to see my mother alive.”
―
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
“God
know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and
patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.”
―
Phyllis McGinley
“His
mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to
be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She cut
herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she'd almost let slip.
Suzy's
wedding ring clicked against the steering wheel as she gave it a hard smack.
"I'm going to kill him! He's been telling that hooker story again, hasn't
he?”
―
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heaven, Texas
“Consider
a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book.
The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the
center of a closed circle - that of mother's body, arms, and the picture
book... That circle, so private and intimate, is a place apart form the demands
and stresses of daily life, a sanctuary in and from which the child can explore
the many worlds offered in picture books. Despite all of our society's
technological advances, it still just takes one child, one book, and one
reader, to create this unique space, to work this everyday magic.”
―
Martha Parravano
“Mom's
eyes held yours for a moment. 'I don't like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked
because I had to. I had to stay in the kitchen so you could all eat and go to
school. How could you only do what you like? There are things you have to do
whether you like it or not.' Mom's expression asked, What kind of question is
that? And then she murmured, 'If you only do what you like, who's going to do
what you don't like?”
―
Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom
