Mother-Love Quotes

I love my mother and hope to one day reconcile with her.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

My mom and I are very close.

I feel dull when I am unable to see my mother for long. So, when I am in Hyderabad, I spend time with her.

We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.

No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive. But growing up, I absolutely did have that feeling of, "Wow, somebody just gave me up." That was infused in The Secret Life of Bees too - the protagonist wanting unconditional love from her dead but much-imagined mother.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn't understand many things.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.