Mothers Quotes

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

Anonymous

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

Anonymous

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Definition of Father's Day: Same as Mother's Day but you don't spend as much.

Anonymous

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

Anonymous

No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."

Alan Ray

Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.

Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.

Anonymous

No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible her mother's cookbook and her father's checkbook.

Joyce Mattingly

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

G. Norman Collie

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

Anonymous

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.

My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed. Any woman who could out-stubborn a dachshund deserved to be accorded the wary and respectful affection the dachshund gave her.

Markham Shaw Pyle

I’ve been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I’ve never complained. Shame on you. I’m embarrassed to have a son like you…can’t even look after his own bicycle. You just wait until your dad comes home. Then you’ll be in trouble, I can tell you that much.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer

Steen Langstrup

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

Rasmenia Massoud

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

Adriana Trigiani

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Boris Pasternak

But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and turning around and saying "What?" And her saying "I love you." And me rolling my eyes like I just wanted to hurry up so I didn't miss the bus. I'd start going again and she'd say "Hey, honey!" and I'd pretend I was so annoyed 'cause she was wasting time and I had to go catch the bus. And how secretly it was my favorite part of every day.

Matt de la Pena

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there’s a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic.

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling,

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I were being studied by flowers.

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.

Elizabeth Hunter

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except my own children. I never had to give it to nobody else--and the one time I did it was took from me--they held me down and took it. Milk that belonged to my baby.... I know what it is to be without the milk that belongs to you; to have to fight and holler for it, and to have so little left.

Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)

At the end of the day, can you look back and say to yourself, "Today, my mother would be proud of me because I gave it all I had"? If you can, you will have had a very good day. And if you can do this every day, you will have a very good life.

Patrick Henry Hughes

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?

Ursula K Le Guin

But she loves her daughter, David can tell, loves her the way David's mother loved him, and sometimes David feels that same love he used to, except now it's coming from other places, other people, and it's a good thing the love is coming because he's beginning to think there aren't enough rules in the universe to bring his mother back.

There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.

Kevin Pietersen

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers are multi-taskers.

Sophie Kinsella

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

Elizabeth Cunningham

Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good name in the world lay in her hands. They would give her love, protection, even a sort of homage, but in return for that she must be what they wanted and needed her to be.

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

We dragged Linc along. His current honey is working tonight.""Still the intern?""Yeah." Helen sat on the curvy velvet chaise, made herself at home. "I'm starting to think he'sgetting serious about her.""And?""I don't know. She's a nice girl, raised well. Focused, which he could use, and independent,which I appreciate.""But he's your baby.""But he's my baby," Helen agreed. "I miss the little boy sometimes, with the scabbed knees andloose shoelaces. Still see him in that tall, gorgeous lawyer in the three-piece suit that strolls in andout of my life now. And Jesus,

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.

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

Donna K. Childree

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

...do you have someone you can stay with? Hell, stay with your mother. The Pentagon doesn’t have the security system she’s g

There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth,Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she was an unbearable detailOf the supreme celestial map,Of which I had been taught that there wasNo such thing.

Lucie Brock-Broido

What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.

Margaret Atwood

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