Best Mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

“[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.”

Ifs Important Happens Mother Reading Newspapers Reading Newspapers

“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”

Years Children Mother Suffering Force Results Marriage Daughter Former Torture Latter

Author:John Wilmot

“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.”

Ifs Trying Stills Mother Asks Alive Add Busy Phones Call Me Too Busy Hang Ups

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.”

Way Children Ends Shows Mother My Way My Children Resolution Rags Blunt Scissors

Book:Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

“Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.”

Knows Littles Kids Mother Water Half Boys Wet Daddy Skulls Little Boys Treading Treading Water

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“The term 'working mother' is redundant.”

Mother Term Redundant

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.”

Two Home Kids Mother Doors Arms Labor Teeth Evening Knees Milk Mail Entering Frozen Cleaning Naive Lambs Gallons Armpits

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.”

Mind Mother Easy Food Comfort Illusion Soup Comfort Food

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.”

Giving Years Firsts Children Long Mother Sleep Rooms Week Long Time Studios Invites Fifth Couches Your Room

Author:Lois Wyse

“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.”

People Thinking World Children Has Beens Stories Seems School Remember Used Mother Father Language Black Grace Heard Greek Black People Marvelous Aunt Ohio

Author:Toni Morrison

“The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.”

Ideas Mother Sex Boys No Idea Knees Referring Sex Education

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.”

Knows Feels Mean Mother Silence Known Alive Terrible Sorrow Do You Know

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.”

Way Children Stills Different Real Mother Consciousness Habit Degrees Daughter Different Ways Mutual Mother And Daughter

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.”

Ifs Knows Mother Anger Invention Fury

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.”

People Able Mother Born Unique

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

Way States Facts Mother Sides United United States Circumstances Offers Chiefs African American Indian Native Grandfather Native American Indian Chief

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]”

Ifs Mother Wish Luxury Remove Avarice

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.”

May Mother Opinion Please Daughter Fortune Appearance Expected Contrary Commerce Deceitful Abode Residence Continuance

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!”

Men Kind Children Art Dream Mother Poor Childhood Seasons Infinite Rounds Sweetest Poor Man Radiance Slumber Huts Infinite Hope

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Historian

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian

“A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.”

Moments Age Mother Opportunity Seasons Right Moment

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.”

World Seems Mother Left Memories Passed Away Lonesome

Book:Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.”

Children Feelings Beautiful Mother Simple Imagine Holy Pure Ties Links Construction Fidelity Withered Emblems Mother And Child Immaculate Simple And Beautiful

Author:Washington Irving

“A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.”

May Children Mother Turns Father Endure My Mom Sister Mother Love Mother's Love Mother And Child Mother Proverbs Love For My Mother Mom And Child Love My Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.”

Thinking Hard Enough Mother

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.”

Mother Grief Lays Breathe

Book:Collected Poems: 1930–1993

Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1993

“Society's the mother of convention.”

Mother Society Conventions

Author:Carolyn Wells

“I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!”

Should Firsts Mother Artist Sides Records Wife Companion Charming Charming Woman Full Time Mother

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.”

People Mean Mother Psychology Weight Angry Calm Diets Frustration Overweight Counselor Entanglement Overeating

Book:Bachelor Girls

Source: Bachelor Girls

“A pittifull mother makes a scald head.”

Mother

Author:George Herbert

“Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.”

Mother Steps Fortune Step Mother

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

“As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.”

Thinking Men Mother Accepting Son Proud Discovery My Son Be Proud Alienation Be A Man Counting Mother And Son Demeaning Womanly

Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.”

Firsts Children Remember Mother Tone Reserved Byron

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.”

Way Feels Doe Mother Dimples

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.”

Children Mother Father Responsible Unfair Scots Illegitimate Child

Author:Dale Evans

“Mothers can forgive anything!”

Mother Forgiving

Book:Jo's Boys: In Easy-to-Read Type

Source: Jo's Boys: In Easy-to-Read Type

“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”

Children Mother Father Parent Natural Study Sweet Cherish Housekeeping

Book:Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

Source: Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

“Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!”

Heart Mother Wife Pure Husband Foundation Breasts Maids Pure Love Ardor Placid Domesticity

Author:Euripides

“Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?”

Should Wells God Mother Father Heaven Praying Our Father

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.”

Knows Mother Wish Grows Ability Wife Duty Limits Organized Spheres Wives And Mothers

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...”

Years Two Mother History Fate

Book:The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations

Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.”

Children Mother Circumstances Ideology

Book:Simone De Beauvoir Today

Source: Simone De Beauvoir Today

“I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.”

People Giving Mother Turns Games Teacher Speech Giving Up Therapy Autism Aunt One On One Nannies Science Teacher Yaks Speech Therapy

Author:Temple Grandin

“Children are what the mothers are.”

Children Mother

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.”

Mother Greater Daughter Confusion Complexity Amazement

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution