5,322 Quotes About Mother

A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight.

For this brief moment, Amma stood alone beneath the planets. She lifted one hand to cradle the sinking sun. When she raised the other, she tossed up the moon.

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences.

Your first teacher is your mother; the second is people; the third is life; and the fourth is God.

It is brave to be ruthless towards the mother.

Hoy te vuelvo a ver, madre, después de veintisiete años, y me pregunto si durante todo este tiempo has sido consciente de cuánto daño has hecho a tus hijos. (…) Es difícil decirlo: no siento nada. Al fin y al cabo, eres mi madre. Pero es imposible que sienta amor. No puedo amarte, madre

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, driven out of their minds by the horrors of the journey, abandoned their children, shook the corn out of their sacks onto the ground, and turned back. A quick death, they had decided, was preferable to a slow death by starvation. Better to fall into the clutches of the enemy than to be torn to pieces by some beast in the forest.

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

Elsa stared at Rose for as long as she could, memorizing everything about her, but at last, she had no choice. It was time to leave this place, this woman, this home