I Miss My Mother Quotes

#1. Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

Nina Simone

#2. I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

Caitlin Flanagan

#3. It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.

Melina Marchetta

#4. I miss my mother very, very much.

Paul Haggis

#5. I am still jealous that Phoebe's mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.

Sharon Creech

#6. I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

Candy Crowley

#7. I think she'll fit quite well. As wives go, Miss Pursling will be just like these books. When I wish to take her down and read her, she'll be there. When I don't, she'll wait patiently, precisely where she was left. She'll make me a comfortable wife, Ames. Besides, my mother likes her.

Courtney Milan

#8. When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

Scott Baio

#9. I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from ... " I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?

Oprah Winfrey

#10. My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

Joan Collins

#11. As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

Joyce Rachelle

#12. Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

Kevin Sessums

#13. People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone.

Sylvia Kristel

#14. You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.'
Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a drunk, I daresay I don't miss much.

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. My mother's hands were sixty-four years old, weathered, beautiful. They were soft and hard and they held no duplicity of emotion. They didn't love and hate. They were not tender and violent. They never offered me the world and handed me hell. They were constant: I miss them purely.

Maggie MacKellar

#16. How was it possible to miss someone as much as I missed my mother? I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.

Donna Tartt

#17. The lie came out so easily it frightened me. I used to feel sick to my stomach when I heard Mother tell a lie. How can you do it? How do you live with yourself? I used to wonder. But here I was, lying to Miss Paulsen and smiling while doing it.

Ruta Sepetys

#18. My mother's hand strokes my cheek and I don't push it away as I would in wakefulness, never wanting her to know how much I crave that gentle touch. How much I miss her even though I still don't trust her.

Suzanne Collins

#19. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

Terry Pratchett

#20. I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss every day
From Facebook post

Alice Hoffman

#21. For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.

Jane Badler

#22. It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

Alyssa Milano

#23. My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

Jennifer Aniston

#24. I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

Alice Sebold

#25. My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

Ram Shriram

#26. I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"You know. Someone you forget."
From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten.

Mitch Albom

#27. My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.

Jason Chaffetz

#28. I do not want to miss the historic opportunity to embedd the smallest memories of seeing you grow into the colossal fabric of my life.

Harshada Pathare

#29. I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Helen Slater

#30. The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

Alexander McCall Smith

#31. Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I'm happier being alone and missing her than pretending not to miss her while being with someone else. Does that ridiculous statement make sense?"
"Yes."
"Good.

Tracy Guzeman

#32. I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

M.J. Rose