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Mother Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
- I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she…
- I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
- My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
- My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted…
- Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that…
- Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me.…
- One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t…
- …the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I…
- My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.
- Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann