5,322 Quotes About Mother

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it’s… there’s good sides and there’s bad sides…I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.