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My Mother Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke
- 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.
- 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…
- When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them,…
More My Mother Quotes
- 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
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot
- My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. — Drew Barrymore
- My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale… — Angela Bassett
- I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale
- When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way… — Halle Berry
- My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would… — Halle Berry
- My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't… — Sophie Ellis Bextor