Children Quote by Ron Mayes

“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

“As children, we are profoundly loyal to our parents, and to their pain: I wanted to be related to my mom, not ruined by…

— Heather Sellers

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I missed the mother I’d never known and mourned for her suffering now. Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an…

— Stephenie Meyer

“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

“For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look…

— Eudora Welty

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie