101 quotes found
“Tears on yo'ur mother's eyes are havier than Ocean waters.”
“Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.”
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”
“Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of...”
“A good mother is irreplaceable.”
“My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.”
“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.”
“Children are born to break their mothers hearts, my boy.”
“How much I love my mom cannot be measured in words, it's just too much and too hard to describe.”
“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”
“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”
“Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.”
“I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out...”
“But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe thats what mothers did.”
“But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the m...”
“I live three thousand miles away from my mother. But no matter how far away, I'm still hers. I'm brave in the ways she's made me brave and scared in the ways she's made me scared. I'll never belong...”
“Of course shes right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?”
