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Mother Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke
- A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
- And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
- But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
- I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
- Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
- Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
- The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
- I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past…
- My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death,…
- My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed…
- One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that…
- When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them,…
- A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in…
- A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.
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