Lisa See Quotes

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

I am a mother. Whether it is Alia or Shaheen, at any point in time, if they are suffering, I am the one who gets affected badly.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Mothers can forgive anything!

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

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.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.