I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom…

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

— Emily Dickinson

“I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly…

— Mary Stewart

“I suppose my mother would have been proud of me. At least I was wearing clean shorts.”

— J.A. Jance

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave,…

— Alice Munro

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“It must be difficult to be a mother,” she continued thoughtfully. “To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest all of…

— Eda J. Vor

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

— Ellen Kushner

“Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.”

— Jacqueline Carey

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be…

— Helen Oyeyemi

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp…

— Robert Dallek

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled,…

— Bernie Siegel

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast,…

— Otto von Bismarck