Top 100 Mother'd Quotes

#1. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.

Seanan McGuire

Mother'd Quotes #4846
#2. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.

Neil Gaiman

Mother'd Quotes #10504
#3. I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

Christa Miller

Mother'd Quotes #13878
#4. no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like

Rupi Kaur

Mother'd Quotes #16956
#5. To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.

Debasish Mridha

Mother'd Quotes #20592
#6. The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!

Ned Vizzini

Mother'd Quotes #22041
#7. The two of you grew apart,' my mother would say. She made it sound as if we'd veered off in different directions, though in fact we had the exact same destination. I just never made it.

David Sedaris

Mother'd Quotes #24639
#8. Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We children would run as fast as we could go along the top of that mountain when the wind was blowing, holding our arms right open. The wilder it blew the better we liked it.

Eudora Welty

Mother'd Quotes #25422
#9. I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Virginia Postrel

Mother'd Quotes #31204
#10. 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

Mother'd Quotes #35491
#11. I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive me to my mother's, so I'd be with my grandfather a lot. I used to watch him write his sermons.

Chris Rock

Mother'd Quotes #41420
#12. I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

JoAnn Ross

Mother'd Quotes #41678
#13. A place where we'd be forced to interact. A place where we'd stop having to pretend that my mother didn't leave way too much space in our house after she died. Rachel

Colleen Hoover

Mother'd Quotes #42543
#14. Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.'
I'd never thought of it like that before. 'I don't think she knew what else to do.

Belinda Jeffrey

Mother'd Quotes #43976
#15. I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

Blake Lively

Mother'd Quotes #45771
#16. I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.

Debasish Mridha

Mother'd Quotes #49370
#17. And I couldn't tell my mother to fuck off.I'd be killed.

Audrey Bell

Mother'd Quotes #50728
#18. I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

Patrick Macnee

Mother'd Quotes #51955
#19. Are you going to take Sang to the football games, Dakota? It'd make a nice date."
( ... ) "Holy shit," Gabriel said. "The first time Sang gets asked out and it's by Kota's mother.

C.L.Stone

Mother'd Quotes #53044
#20. I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

Mother'd Quotes #55839
#21. I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I'd be distracted or I wouldn't be as committed as the rest of you, but who's more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who've got nothing left?

Bill Blais

Mother'd Quotes #63153
#22. My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Clint Eastwood

Mother'd Quotes #64683
#23. My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

Martha Plimpton

Mother'd Quotes #64983
#24. My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Faye Wattleton

Mother'd Quotes #65322
#25. The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are.

Ornette Coleman

Mother'd Quotes #67770
#26. Inej's mother had told her that gifted wire walkers were descended from the People of the Air, that they'd once had wings, and that in the right light, those wings could still be glimpsed on the humans to whom they showed favor.

Leigh Bardugo

Mother'd Quotes #70426
#27. My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

Richard Flanagan

Mother'd Quotes #80067
#28. My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

Philip Treacy

Mother'd Quotes #80871
#29. Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

N.D. Wilson

Mother'd Quotes #87785
#30. But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I'd lose myself.

Kate Bolick

Mother'd Quotes #94234
#31. My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

Kurt Cobain

Mother'd Quotes #96666
#32. I don't have to answer to you, Adam said, instantly and harshly. He brushed his pants off like he'd just buried his mother.

Daniel Handler

Mother'd Quotes #99140
#33. I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

Leo Durocher

Mother'd Quotes #103200
#34. Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

Nicole Beharie

Mother'd Quotes #103437
#35. When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

Al Pacino

Mother'd Quotes #106329
#36. I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

Jane Green

Mother'd Quotes #109880
#37. MOM - Mistress Of Miracles

Richelle E. Goodrich

Mother'd Quotes #115560
#38. The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died.
This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is.

Ron Rash

Mother'd Quotes #124732
#39. Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

D.H. Lawrence

Mother'd Quotes #126224
#40. Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's.

Bentley Little

Mother'd Quotes #127474
#41. Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.

Shannon Hale

Mother'd Quotes #127685
#42. Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

Jennifer Connelly

Mother'd Quotes #129867
#43. I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Shahrukh Khan

Mother'd Quotes #133213
#44. Come over here and light me a cigarette," she'd said. I'd snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then she'd said, "Don't get started with something you won't be able to do without.

Elizabeth Berg

Mother'd Quotes #139170
#45. Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done.

Jerome K. Jerome

Mother'd Quotes #139984
#46. I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

Mariella Frostrup

Mother'd Quotes #140254
#47. Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she'd rather die than go back to a man she didn't love.

Brenna Yovanoff

Mother'd Quotes #143627
#48. My mother turned towards me with a coffeepot in each hand, her jaw dangling somewhere near her collarbone. You'd think she'd never seen me naked, when I knew for a fact I'd been born that way.

Rachel Vincent

Mother'd Quotes #144199
#49. He hated him for the twenty-three year old his mother had been, younger than he now was when she'd died, alone and sorrowful.

Sarah J. Maas

Mother'd Quotes #147852
#50. My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.

D.J. Cotrona

Mother'd Quotes #149441
#51. I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Ben Affleck

Mother'd Quotes #152945
#52. Let's just say it was obvious from a very early age the only female heart I'd ever break would be my mother's.

J.L. Merrow

Mother'd Quotes #157737
#53. As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Michael Graves

Mother'd Quotes #159985
#54. On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.

Aspen Matis

Mother'd Quotes #164526
#55. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

Mother'd Quotes #165810
#56. I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

H.R. Giger

Mother'd Quotes #175861
#57. I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.
~ Michelle Jarvis

Gregg Olsen

Mother'd Quotes #176339
#58. I've got to go."
"Go where?"
"To go. I'd have just taken care of it myself, but it looks like you want to come along."
Mott cursed. "Wait for morning."
"Wish I could. I've been cursed with my mother's pea-size bladder.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Mother'd Quotes #180526
#59. My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Vincent Gallo

Mother'd Quotes #181372
#60. It wasn't that I truly felt bad that I'd upset my mother - it was more that I hated any debits in her column.

Gillian Flynn

Mother'd Quotes #188230
#61. He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead.

Brooke Warra

Mother'd Quotes #194041
#62. You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - spoken by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about a month, when I was 18 years old!

Becky Lewellen Povich

Mother'd Quotes #196824
#63. Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

D.H. Lawrence

Mother'd Quotes #202930
#64. side, Vicky. I remember how overwhelmed I was when I became a mother; there was that enormous emotional kick, the shock at how deeply rooted my feelings were for someone I'd only just met. But

Emma Curtis

Mother'd Quotes #203691
#65. I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

Jim Carrey

Mother'd Quotes #203976
#66. He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.

Nora Roberts

Mother'd Quotes #205292
#67. I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

Maurice Sendak

Mother'd Quotes #206449
#68. No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

Wendy Wasserstein

Mother'd Quotes #217234
#69. I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

Thomas Kean Jr.

Mother'd Quotes #220529
#70. JOURNEY: I'm never more proud of my mother than after seeing her handle her parents that year. She's finally learning to be herself around people who'd like to keep her in a box of their expectations.

Bijou Hunter

Mother'd Quotes #223573
#71. I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Kevin Hart

Mother'd Quotes #223835
#72. I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

Bea Arthur

Mother'd Quotes #224501
#73. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

Marlo Thomas

Mother'd Quotes #227120
#74. My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Mother'd Quotes #230082
#75. You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Mother'd Quotes #236459
#76. My mouth fell open, and I swear, I got chills. He'd actually done it. He'd told his mom no. Somewhere along the line, Will Killian had grown a mother-proof spine.

Stacey Kade

Mother'd Quotes #236553
#77. By week's end, when we'd had all manner of weather, I finally saw what it was about heavy seas and marvelous rest: in heavy seas you feel rocked to sleep, with the windows' spume a gentle shushing, the engines' throb a mother's pulse.

David Foster Wallace

Mother'd Quotes #237824
#78. When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d'oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.

Lea Michele

Mother'd Quotes #239107
#79. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Chuck D

Mother'd Quotes #244533
#80. My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father

Irvin D. Yalom

Mother'd Quotes #248610
#81. Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

Terry Pratchett

Mother'd Quotes #252132
#82. The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

Anthony D. Williams

Mother'd Quotes #256499
#83. She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Junot Diaz

Mother'd Quotes #257465
#84. A woman is a blissful mother, a wonderful sister, a gorgeous daughter, and a friend with a kind heart who really cares. Wishing you a wonderful International Women's Day

Debasish Mridha

Mother'd Quotes #260372
#85. If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Bo Jackson

Mother'd Quotes #262542
#86. Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

Gary D. Schmidt

Mother'd Quotes #263979
#87. Inej's mother and father might still shed tears for the daughter they'd lost, but if Inej died tonight, there would be no one to grieve for the girl she was now.

Leigh Bardugo

Mother'd Quotes #273741
#88. When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Olympia Dukakis

Mother'd Quotes #274945
#89. It's so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I'm a fretful child and it's my mother, though if the sea were my mother, I'd rather have been an orphan.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mother'd Quotes #276544
#90. Aw, I'm like a proud mother bird watching my daughter fly from the nest. Fly, little bird, fly. Oh no! Don't fall. No, that's the ground. Addie, watch out for the ground. Man, tough luck. You'd better come back home.

Kasie West

Mother'd Quotes #277969
#91. Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine what was making Amma sick? Did her blue pill make me vomit, or did it keep me from getting more ill than I'd have been without it?

Gillian Flynn

Mother'd Quotes #278410
#92. There were a dozen reasons why she might refuse him. But they were all someone else's reasons. Her mother's, her peers', society's. She'd already left all those expectations behind.

Tessa Dare

Mother'd Quotes #280672
#93. Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn't the only one in town who'd come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

Sarah Weeks

Mother'd Quotes #284314
#94. If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

Michael Shannon

Mother'd Quotes #285994
#95. My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.

Pauly D

Mother'd Quotes #286365
#96. His mother lavished attention on her dogs and her husband had them shot. She lavished attention on the boy and the boy was convinced he'd be next.

Helen Macdonald

Mother'd Quotes #287259
#97. My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Cher

Mother'd Quotes #295465
#98. Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha! I'd like to see her knock someone silly with an apron and a cookie press.

Rachel Vincent

Mother'd Quotes #297533
#99. She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.

Dean Koontz

Mother'd Quotes #297639
#100. Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

Brit Bennett

Mother'd Quotes #298979

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