Mother
Quotes - My mother is my friend
“Destiny
doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes
when you're ready, whether you know it or not.”
―
Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King
“I
have a daughter I have never held.
She
has a scent I have never smelled
She
has a name I have never yelled.
She
has a mother who has already failed.
Love,
Kenna”
―
Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him
“The
sight of my mother's handwriting on the slips of paper and in the margins of
the book causes me to inhale sharply, and for a moment I smell licorice, as if
the mere sight of her heavily styled penmanship has produced an olfactory
hallucination. It's a delicate smell, more like anise or fresh tarragon than
the sugary smell of a licorice pastille.
Smell,
I remember my mother once telling me, is the most powerful of the senses.
Without it, there is no taste. Long ago I lost the memory of her face, the
sound of her voice, the touch of her fingers. But I can still remember her
smell, in the aroma of a sherry reduction, the perfume, delicate and faint,
that lingers on your hands after you've run them through a hedge of rosemary,
the pungent assault of a Gauloises cigarette. Any of a thousand smells are
enough to conjure her memory.”
―
Meredith Mileti, Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses
“I
wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else
for that matter.”
―
Lynn Freed
“She
who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her
husband, is a help in the domestic state”
―
Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
“She
has very high standards." "Maybe. Or maybe she's-and I'm having
trouble putting this in a nonjudgemental away-maybe she's got into the habit of
criticising you and hasn't paid attention to how much that messes you up.”
―
Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material
“A
man ain't nothing but a man," said Baby Suggs. "But a son? Well now,
that's somebody.”
―
Toni Morrison, Beloved
“The
strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and
father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of
sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and
fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it.”
―
A.J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
“See
the hand that nursed the serpent.”
―
Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
“Since
the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who
I am supposed to be.”
―
Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
“She
also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she
was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.”
―
Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges
“...to
return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their
mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered
bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the
horrors that terrify them.”
―
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“She
sacrifices her dream to make my dream come true.”
―
Luffina Lourduraj
“I
have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.”
―
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
“In
your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“It
was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the
sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way
through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and
forgiveness, it sank into her heart.”
―
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“Mother's
ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with
her arms open and wide.”
―
Amit Ray
“I
love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family
in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.”
―
Ana Monnar
“She
wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by
brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand
still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask
you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary.
Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother.
Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you.”
―
Colum McCann
“My
mother is my friend
Who
shares with me her bread
All
my hopelessness cured!
Her
company makes me secured!”
―
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Teaching
a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.”
―
Clayton Lessor MA, LPC
“Memory
for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.”
―
Fern Schumer Chapman, Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter
Journey to Reclaim the Past
“I
want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then—I
have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then—I
can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then—I
feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.”
―
Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
“She
pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered
commas.”
―
Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
“She
expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she
made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even
legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good
enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You
have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes
and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her
too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.”
―
Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
