I try to remember what my mother said about sympathy and…

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

— Anne Carson

“What one says hardly matters, only the trust with which it is said, the sympathy with which it is received.”

— Truman Capote

“Mrs Ramsay, who had been sitting loosely, folding her son in her arm, braced herself, and, half turning, seemed to raise herself with an…

— Virginia Woolf

“Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action. That was an essential brick in Bosch’s wall. He had built himself as a man…

— Michael Connelly

“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.”

— Kyle Minor

“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.” “Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Consider the power of love. I remember a mother I met once as I made a professional house call. This woman was confined in…

— Russell M. Nelson

She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,…

— Jesmyn Ward

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in…

— Teddy Pendergrass

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a…

— Carol Kane

“...I remember that my mother had always said to be polite and finish my meal. At last he gave no more struggles. The deed…

— Wynter Wilkins

One cannot remember mother and forget God.

— Thomas S. Monson

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at…

— Tammy Duckworth

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

— Therese of Lisieux

“I know there’s something troubling you. I’m not going to ask what it is, if you don’t want to tell me. But remember that…

— Erin Hunter