„And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.“

— Cassandra Clare
„I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.“
— Maya Angelou
„I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one“
— Stephen King
„I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!“
— Tennessee Williams
„I am genuinely sympathetic towards India. I have got real fears about the future. India, I feel is a burden on us. We have got to maintain an army and for the sake of India we have to maintain Singapore and Near East strength. If India could look after herself we would be delighted. … I would be only too delighted if the Reforms are a success. I have all along felt that there are fifty Indias. But you have got the thing now; make it a success and if you do I will advocate your getting much more.“
— Winston S. Churchill