Listen with your heart, you will understand.
— Pocahontas
Unconventional Love My Mom quotations
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.


My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom.
Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness.
If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own.
There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
I also sing about my mom leaving me a lot - a lot of kids have their moms or dads leave them, so they relate to that. I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I think that's what the kids love.

I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest.
It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation.
I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment.
My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
Love is such an arbitrary thing. I love my mom. I love pancakes.
I believe life is about balance. My mom was brilliant, yet manipulative. Beautiful, but had more voices in her head than the Wu-Tang Clan. Loves her kids, killed her last husband. I say last husband because you don't get another one after that.

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.