Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from the above.
The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a---Mother!I was going to say arm.
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.
Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?
And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…
Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.
Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.
My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth...
Motherhood can be seen as a political act. (...) when adressed, disconnections can become opportunities (...) Even when sons seem to be disinterested (...), a mother's efforts are extremely important....
She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was i...
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's p...