I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Mom is getting jealous, I see my manager more than I see her before.

Kyo’s mother’s voice: It’s okay. It’ll all be okay. Because I love you. That’s why I don’t want anyone else to see you. Don’t look.

Howl : I’ve got it! Why don’t you go to the palace for me?
Old Sophie : Huh?
Howl : Just say that you’re Pendragon’s mother and

Mother knows you don’t have to be unkind to someone in order to exploit them.

My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God’s plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

My mother raised me, a single parent, so it’s apparent that I got love for my mother, none of you other fuckers.

My mother said to me, ‘Ruby, if I’m not with you and you’re afraid, then always say your prayers.’

Good morning, Mom! I hope you have a great day doing what you love to do!

My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.

I imagined a scrawny eight years old Alaska with dirty fingers, looking down at her mother convulsing. So, she sat down with her dead-or-maybe-not-dead mother, who I imagine was not breathing by then but wasn’t yet cold either. And in the time between dying and death, a little Alaska sat with her mother in silence.

The day after my mom took me to the zoo where she liked the monkeys and I liked the bears, it was a Friday. I came home from school. She gave me a hug and told me to go do my homework in my room so I could watch TV later. I went into my room, and she sat down at the kitchen table, I guess, and then she screamed, and I ran out, and she had fallen over. She was lying on the floor, holding her head and jerking. And I freaked out. I should have called 911, but I just started screaming and crying until finally she stopped jerking, and I thought she had fallen asleep and that whatever had hurt didn’t hurt anymore. So I just sat there on the floor with her until my dad got home an hour later.

Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever. End of story.

It’s like my mom always says: ‘Ya think you’s a-walkin’ on water, but turns out you just got piss in your shoes.’

He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

Best day of my life hasn’t happened yet. But I know it. I see it every day. The best day of my life is the day I buy my mom a huge fucking house. And not just like out in the woods, but in the middle of Mountain Brook, with all the Weekday Warriors’ parents. With all y’all’s parents. And I’m not buying it with a mortgage either. I’m buying it with cash money, and I am driving my mom there, and I’m going to open her side of the car door and she’ll get out and look at this house — this house is like picket fence and two stories and everything, you know — and I’m going to hand her the keys to her house and I’ll say, ‘Thanks.’ Man, she helped fill out my application to this place. And she let me come here, and that’s no easy thing when you come from where we do, to let your son go away to school. So that’s the best day of my life.

Yo girlfriend look like my mom!

Mommy, she said the F word!

Maybe she did bring you into the world and raise you. But just ‘cos she’s your “family” doesn’t mean it’s okay for her to do or say whatever she wants. It’s never okay. Expecting someone to smile and say thank you to their family, when that “family” is just stepping all over them – that’s just abuse. It’s just a curse.

I’m the mother of four.

If my mama said not to do something, I didn’t do it.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

When I was very young… …My world consisted only of Akito, my mother… …And whatever I could glimpse through the sliding paper door.

She’s cute, I thought, but you don’t need to like a girl who treats you like you’re ten: You’ve already got a mom.

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.

A babe is a mother’s anchor.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people’s business alone. And let them think what they want.