Mother Quote by Garrison Keillor

Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

— Charles J. Shields

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end…

— Marcia Muller

“Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The thing about burying a Christian mother is that, amid all the tears, you find yourself mimicking the grin that characterized her life. She…

— Phil Callaway

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

— Kate Atkinson

And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God.…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not…

— George Eliot

“By emphasizing God’s mercy, more infinite than a parent’s for a child, she found salvation in her own weakness. “Sanctity,” Thérèse explains to her…

— Ian Osborn

“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted,…

— Eudora Welty