Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Radio Personality
Sportswriter
Writer
Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom
Story
Mother
Stories
Everything
Mothering
Always
Begins
Mom
Behinds
Behind

More quotes by Mitch Albom

Image
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
Mitch Albom
Image
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Mitch Albom
Image
You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
Mitch Albom
Image
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
Mitch Albom
Image
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
Mitch Albom
Image
You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.
Mitch Albom
Image
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
Mitch Albom
Image
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
Mitch Albom
Image
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
Mitch Albom
Image
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Mitch Albom
Image
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
Image
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
Mitch Albom
Image
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
Mitch Albom
Image
Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
Mitch Albom
Image
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
Mitch Albom
Image
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
Mitch Albom
Image
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
Mitch Albom
Image
I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.
Mitch Albom
Image
There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.
Mitch Albom
Image
Secrets tear you apart.
Mitch Albom