Balance Quote by Mick Hucknall

Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk…

— Marilynne Robinson

My mother has brought me up in a manner that has allowed me to retain my values, ideologies, and philosophies. I was let loose,…

— Ishaan Khatter

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

— Louise Erdrich

My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These…

— Sarah Dessen

a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then…

— Hope Edelman

Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply…

— Richard Jenkins

“Being abandoned through the neglect of our developmental dependency needs is the major factor in becoming an adult child. We grow up; we look…

— John Bradshaw

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and…

— Misty Copeland

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my…

— Donna Karan

My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me…

— Sameera Reddy

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

“Being abandoned by a child or children is the most traumatic experience ever suffered by a parent. It’s a life-changing event, best- described as…

— Sally Miller