"For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day."
Read quote
3 likes
Mother quotes
Mother
11.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mother
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mother — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mother quotes (page 86 of 560)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss."
Read quote
3 likes
"My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love."
Read quote
3 likes
"Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good."
Read quote
3 likes
"For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes."
Read quote
3 likes
"I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'"
Read quote
3 likes
"Necessity, thou mother of the world!"
Read quote
3 likes
"Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion."
Read quote
3 likes
"When he is sick, every man wants his mother."
Read quote
3 likes
"Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels."
Read quote
3 likes
"My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me."
Read quote
3 likes
"You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they were young because I really focused in, very much, on the mothering aspect."
Read quote
3 likes
"Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was."
Read quote
3 likes
"My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child."
Read quote
3 likes
"He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household."
Read quote
3 likes
"When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there."
Read quote
3 likes