Mother Quote by Jim Lynch Download Open image ““It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.”” — Jim Lynch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Mother Miserable Parenting Surprised Surprised Want Want Mother
“Once she’d realized she’d never meet her mother’s expectations, it didn’t seem real important to meet anyone else’s.” — Carla Cassidy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Having a mother who cares about you and wants you to be happy must really be rough.” — Kristin Wolden Nitz Copy Share Image
“I think everyone may have underestimated your mother’s love for you. Me included.” — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I want my mother right now. I want her so desperately that I physically ache to have her hold me, and it's absolutely bullshit… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“Her mother used to say a woman's life was suffering, but that was the last thing she wanted for this sweet girl who had… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“My mother was the person I loved most in this world. She was also the person that had messed me up the most.” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and no she's gone.” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“Love wouldn’t make being a mother any less boring or draining or bewildering.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“She could see that like most people in the world, her mother just wanted to be loved.” — Rebecca Rasmussen Copy Share Image
“...that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days...I… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“He looked older, too, like a man sucking it up, wrestling with problems he had been trying to conceal. This Norm saw as progress” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image