“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.” MenGivingMotherLaysBraveFaithfulKneesTendernessShedStrainBeamFondness Book:Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life
“Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.” LastsMotherNightMinesHundredNineKneesFairyTake MeLast NightHarper Author:Mary Howitt
“All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.” MotherKnees Author:Phyllis Diller
“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.” TwoHomeKidsMotherDoorsArmsLaborTeethEveningKneesMilkMailEnteringFrozenCleaningNaiveLambsGallonsArmpits Author:Erma Bombeck
“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.” IdeasMotherSexBoysNo IdeaKneesReferringSex Education Author:Jeanette Winterson
“[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.” PeopleMatterMotherMoralAtheismIntellectualPositive AtheismKneesSkeptical Author:Bertrand Russell
“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.” WorldWayMeanChildrenSometimesHardMotherFeltRealizingDarkAcceptingImagineTroubleStupidDaughterWeakHarderTiredKneesSatHallsSmoothTerrifiedClueMother And DaughterHaving ChildrenUnsureWeak In The Knees Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud