Parenting Quote by Carla Cassidy

“It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.”

— Jim Lynch

“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.”

— Gaia B. Amman

“I think everyone may have underestimated your mother’s love for you. Me included.”

— Michael J. Sullivan

“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

“At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.”

— Heather James

“If he could just talk to his mother in person, maybe he could figure out who he should be.”

— Lisa Ko

“My mother said once that we were all hers already. We just hadn't found each other before.”

— Nora Roberts

“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to outlive everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

“When death comes, she said, all that matters is this: to be next to one another. My mother was wearing a silk dress, and…

— Hannah Tinti

“I’d had this idea that my birth mother was waiting for me to get in touch, and that we’d have this fantastic reunion. When…

— Adele Abbott

“She could see that like most people in the world, her mother just wanted to be loved.”

— Rebecca Rasmussen

“On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!”

— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss