These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank…

“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died,…

— Cheryl Strayed

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

— Sylvia Plath

How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I…

— Thomas S. Monson

“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this earth where…

— BJ Ward

“Grass Fires" No ease for the boy at his keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young, my eyes…

— Robert Lowell

“my voice is the offspring of two countries colliding what is there to be ashamed of if english and my mother tongue made love…

— Rupi Kaur

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear…

— Swami Vivekananda

“All the rantings in the world couldn't put the fear of the Lord into him like a few gentle words from his mother.”

— Victoria Wilcox

“Hello, Josie,” they’d say with a half smile, followed by a sigh and sometimes a shake of the head. They acted like they felt…

— Ruta Sepetys

“But in the first few hundred of the thousands of pages of plain prose and careful grammar that Patricia Highsmith plied in her thirty-eight…

— Joan Schenkar

No words describe a mother's tears, no words can heal a broken heart.

— Phil Collins

“The savage rushing of the river seemed to be inside her head, inside her body. Even when the oarswomen, their guides, were speaking to…

— Alice Walker

“The words of my mother came to me in a yellowed letter long lost. And speaking into my present from some distant place far…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I…

— Lionel Suggs

“Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that’s even darker.”

— George R.R. Martin