- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Quotes
On mothers, their advice, and what stays with us.
Several of these lines trace back to childhood impressions left by a mother's words, whether about appearance, privacy, or simply keeping close watch. For prayer-toned reflections, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020