Motherless Quotes

When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I had no father. I had no mother after I was 8.

Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

I lost my mom when I was young.

My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would've been incredibly different had she still been alive.

I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn't have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.