5,322 Quotes About Mother


  • Author Susie Newman
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    My mother reminds me of her painting palette. Her vibrant moods are swirls of color. She is witty, kooky orange one minute and reckless, sexy red the next. She is shades of sunshine and sunflower petals, and she is a circle of black, burrowing in a deep hole of depression and sadness. My mom is sincerely flawed and beautiful, making it hard not to fall in love with her.

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  • Author Hanya Yanagihara
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    As I grew older, I came to realize that death had been easy for my mother; to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life. But she had not. It was as if she had been preparing for her death the entire time I knew her. One day she was alive; the next, not.And as Sybil said, she was lucky. For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.- Gaspard Mermillod Indeed, a mother performs such a unique role and character that no one else can; however, every daughter takes her place continuously; it alternates the alternative.- Ehsan Sehgal

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    Indeed, a mother performs such a unique role and character that no one else can; however, every daughter takes her place continuously; it alternates the alternative.

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  • Author Sonal Takalkar
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    गंगेकाठी "अर्घ्य "देताना कितीतरी मासे माझ्या पायांशी घुटमळायचे. अभेद्य कवचाला चिमुरड्या मुखाने ओरबाडायची चेष्टा करत. पण कधी त्या मातेने माझा तिरस्कार करून जगाच्या प्रवाहात कधीच सोडलं नाही.

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  • Author Michelle Zauner
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    I remember these things clearly because that was how my mother loved you, not through white lies and constant verbal affirmation, but in subtle observations of what brought you joy, pocketed away to make you feel comforted and cared for without even realizing it.

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