I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen…

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted…

— Jennifer Garner

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is…

— Jermaine Jackson

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the…

— Edwidge Danticat

Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2…

— Kate DiCamillo

It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

— Joe Dunthorne

“But I did wonder what she did, on those afternoons—not just Fridays either, because on the days I had speech team, somebody else’s mother…

— Claire Messud

“In case you haven't noticed, the primary occupation of little girls is sitting still. Stop fidgeting, behave yourself, act like a lady, don't, don't…

— Barbara Paul

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

“She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The”

— Saroo Brierley

“It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I hear my father; I need never fear. I hear my mother; I shall never be lonely, or want for love. When I am…

— James Agee

“to hear what you and my mother were doing last night. I think”

— Richelle Mead

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

— Sara Zarr

“Between laughs I could hear my mother’s words ringing in my ears. “Why don't you write something that will sell?”

— Henry Miller

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

— Lucretius