Mother Quote by Meghan O'Rourke Download Open image “A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.” — Meghan O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting Portal World
A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A Mother is someone who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mother is person who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. — Gaspard Mermillod Copy Share Image
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A mother is she who can take place of all other but whose place no one else can take… — Mulfat Copy Share Image
A mother is the one through whom God whispers love to His little children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mother is a blend of strength and survivorship, experience and insight, fancy and reflection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you — Nateman Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to… — Meghan O'Rourke 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
