Quotes about mother
mother father character
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship. Ronald Reagan
mother heart men
My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne Robert Jordan
mother son black
Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
mother men brain
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
mother home hands
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
mother atheist father
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. Robert Jay Lifton
mother children moving
When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself. Robert James Waller
mother princess small-rooms
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing. Roddy Doyle
mother pittsburgh found
One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh! Rodney Dangerfield
mother father childhood
My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
mother jobs new-york
When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.
mother doctors no-respect
I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother
mother running respect
When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark...
mother sex men
When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.
mother names wife
When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.
mother two wife
I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.
mother rocks climbing
My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
mother roots honor
I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother. Rocco DiSpirito
mother orchids mother-nature
The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece. Robyn
mother silence speechless
I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.
mother horse home
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it Roberto Duran
mother children remember
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry. Roberto Cavalli
mother children parenting
All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages. Robertson Davies
mother men home-cooking
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.
mother pain night
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight? Robert Southey
mother father trying
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can. Robert Penn Warren
mother lonely father
From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit. Robert MacNeil
mother glowing important
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
mother baby definitions
99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down. Robert M. Pirsig
mother daughter wife
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
mother reflection inner-beauty
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! Robert Evans
mother prayer night
It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church. Wesley Clark
mother sibling teaching
When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends. Viswanathan Anand