Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: love life mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: misfortune boys affection mother consequence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world. —Jamaica Kincaid More about this quote Tags: life mother shadow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity; it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: love law mother child pity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But the mother's yearning . . . feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: failure man mother child Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Certainly I can say that my own childhood was unhappy. This was due to a clash of wills between my mother and myself. My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor. If I could not be seen anywhere, she would say, "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell him to stop it." —Bernard Law Montgomery More about this quote Tags: childhood victory mother battles conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: optimism hope improvement mother motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the beginning there was my mother. A shape. A shape and a force, standing in the light. You could see her energy; it was visible in the air. Against any background she stood out. —Marilyn Krysl More about this quote Tags: energy mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother was my first jealous lover. —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More about this quote Tags: love mother jealousy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At that moment, I missed my mother more than I had ever imagined possible and wanted only to live somewhere quiet and beautiful with her alone, but also at that moment I wanted only to see her lying dead, all withered and in a coffin at my feet. —Jamaica Kincaid More about this quote Tags: alone mother quiet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? —Maya Angelou More about this quote Tags: understanding sympathy mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings. —Elizabeth Dodson Gray More about this quote Tags: power danger nature environmentalism mother feminine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. —Paula Poundstone More about this quote Tags: humor security mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. —William Makepeace Thackeray More about this quote Tags: God heart mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email