On quite a few occasions Liesel forgot about her mother…

“One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem…

— Douglas Adams

“Loser" "Father directed choir. When it paused on a Sunday, he liked to loiter out morning with the girls; then back to our cottage,…

— Robert Lowell

“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "To make me forget . . . that you forgot about me?" My mother…

— Jodi Picoult

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.…

— Ben Okri

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

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

— Horace Mann

One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself…

— Lights

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

Being a new mother is a blessing.

— Phaedra Parks

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor