Mitch Albom Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Wall, Simple

• I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Memories, Food

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.44, Hachette UK

• When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Love You, Eye

  Twitter post from May 11, 2014

• Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

  Mitch Albom

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK

• There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

  Mitch Albom

  Mothers Day, Mom, Stories

• In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Mother, Latin

• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

• The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Taken, Unconditional Love

• Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

  Mitch Albom

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

• When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Forever, Stealing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.36, Hachette UK

• A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Children, Long

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from May 10, 2017

• You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

  Mitch Albom

  Mom, Mother, Lifetime

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.101, Hachette UK

• A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not listening with your EYES

  Mitch Albom

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

• I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Children, Choices

• My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Italian

  "For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

• Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Children, Ideas

• I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Believe

• Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Past, Years

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.103, Hachette UK

• What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, What If, Ifs

• He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Night, Silence

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.85, Hachette UK

• It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Children, Nice

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