I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they hav...
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
Children are angels.
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick mu...
Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we...
There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me.Jordan...I should hav...
The Patrician took a sip of his beer. I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the ban...
Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that the...
But, Jocelyn, if I really were all those things [good, kind, talented, hard working, open to change, and adorable]... ...I would die.'I wasn't sure what I meant by this, but it suddenly struck me as t...
They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the...
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of m...
We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's.
Inhale courage, exhale fear.
I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.