Quotes About Mothers Doing Everything

#1. I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. - Author: Daniel Woodrell

#2. Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do. - Author: Caroline Knapp

#3. Mother's love outlives everything - Author: David Duke

#4. Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need? - Author: Kaui Hart Hemmings

#5. One day you'll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don't ever leave. But right now? Don't mourn me, she - Author: Shelly Crane

#6. The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom. - Author: Sandra Vischer

#7. Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval. - Author: Jack Kirby

#8. When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit. - Author: Quentin Bryce

#9. The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise. - Author: Rick Riordan

#10. I've given you everything," she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes," I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. She'd come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love. - Author: Cheryl Strayed

#11. Fatigue is epidemic among women in general, and mothers in particular. Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks about food. Fatigue can overshadow your life, making everything seem like too much trouble. - Author: Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

#12. How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers. - Author: Celeste Ng

#13. Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there's a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic. - Author: Ben Fountain

#14. Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don't ever leave. - Author: Shelly Crane

#15. Her mother would tell her she was beautiful and that everything was all right. - Author: Sarah Addison Allen

#16. Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen. - Author: Carrie Fisher

#17. He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay. - Author: Suzanne Collins

#18. Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful! - Author: Cornelia Spelman

#19. My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. - Author: Annabelle R. Charbit

#20. Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything. - Author: Margaret Way

#21. What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it. - Author: Anna Quindlen

#22. We are everything that our mothers did not have time to be. - Author: Terisa Siagatonu

#23. I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess. - Author: Heather Vogel Frederick

#24. TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel. - Author: Roseanne Barr

#25. Whitney Houston and Ella Fitzgerald are my musical mothers. I learned everything I know about true R&B, pop and jazz singing from these stunning performers and unparalleled musicians. - Author: Ciara Renee

#26. When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. - Author: Tori Amos

#27. The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about. - Author: Caitlin Moran

#28. She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it. - Author: Liza Minnelli

#29. My mother had a kindness
that embraced all life.
She knew her place well
and was comfortable in giving everything she had.

This is the tradition of native women. - Author: Dan George

#30. You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn't enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can't change that. - Author: Colleen Hoover