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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
Kristin Hannah
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
Madeleine L'Engle
Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.
Margaret Dilloway
There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before.
Jamie McGuire
My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a blank expression- What an awkward woman am I. My heart has longed for him as hugely and openly as a full moonBut instead I narrow my eyes, and my glance to him Is sharp and narrow as the crescent moon. But then, I'm not the only one who behaves this way. My mother and my mother's mother were as silly and stumbling as I am when they were girls...Still, the love from my heart is overflowing, As bright and crimson as the heated metal in a blacksmith's forge.
Kim Dong Hwa
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
Nick Hornby
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
Amy Sedaris
My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?
Barry Deutsch
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
Jodi Picoult
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?
John Green
(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.
Christopher Hitchens
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
Virginia Woolf
I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
Caroline Wozniacki
But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
Stephen King
It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.