she’d packed up her mother’s life in boxes for storage

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…

— Russell Baker

“That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?”

— Kage Baker

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

— Cammie McGovern

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my…

— Patricia Routledge

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature;…

— Louise Glück

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her…

— Henry Williamson

In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed…

— John Masefield

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys…

— Honore de Balzac

We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest…

— Anohni

“I Trust my mother with My Life..! Afterall she Gave it to Me..!!" ~Babu.r..**”

— Babu.r

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as…

— Stephen King

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

— Kristin Hannah

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and…

— Sherry Lansing

Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

— Kamila Shamsie