Mother Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“Her mother had always said that there was strength and power in the time right before dawn, and those who slept through it missed…

— David Thurlo

“...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood…

— Fannie Flagg

“It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.”

— James Thurber

“Just like that fateful day when she and her mother had been taken out of the winter palace, her father had no idea she…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Mother was little but she was mighty.”

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. She found a stirring at the roots of her hair: she found…

— Philip Pullman

“She stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“The wife slept on, only roused by the cry of her child now and then, which seemed to have power over her, when far…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted to be, so she grew up to become the strongest of…

— Nikita Gill