Quotes about Mother

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you—life.

This town must learn, even against its will, how much it costs to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged. So shall I vindicate my virgin mother and reveal myself to mortals as a God, the son of God.

The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .

Do you think your mother came back? Shelby asks him. Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.

Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?"

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen In justice to her fame Has ever reached half high enough To write a mother's name.

I sing of a maidenThat is makeless;King of all kingsTo her son she ches.

Mother, may I go out to swim?Yes, my darling daughter:Hang your clothes on a hickory limbAnd don't go near the water.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.