mother's presence Quotes

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

She's there for life, but even though it's hard to date with my mom around, I'm so thankful for it because the person who can't take Mama Mai is not the person to take me.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

So mothers have God's license to be missed.

I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.