CAPTAIN. Well, you dear, have I forgotten it? You have…

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

— Publilius Syrus

“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Sophie had been chiefly concerned in those days whether her mother would be able to bear the ordeal of losing two children at the…

— Inge Scholl

“I am glad to recollect that when the carrier's cart was at the gate, and my mother stood there kissing me, a grateful fondness…

— Charles Dickens

“The scene unfolded before him as though he were a ghost. His mother stood on the raised stump, her body tied to the tall…

— Jean M. Grant

“When she was older, after ten or so, she could tell she was being useful, but as a small child she was tolerated (only…

— Doris Lessing

“I'm intelligent because my mother stood in the brain-line and not the train-line.”

— LORRAINE GOKUL

“When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told…

— Michael Thomas Ford

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

— Morris Dees

“His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made…

— Mervyn Peake

“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look…

— Eudora Welty

“But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love…

— Stephen King

“you look just like your mother i guess i do carry her tenderness well you both have the same eyes cause we are both…

— Rupi Kaur

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

I HATE clingy boys! like go to your mother for all that, not around here.

— Anonymous