Best mother & wife Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.”

Two Seems Lasts Mother Wife Essentials Affair Jew Posts Ministers Japan April Treaties Supplies Assistants Telegraph Foreign Affairs Food Supply Fisheries Molotov

Author:Arnold Leese

“The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.”

Said Kids Law Mother Guy Given Wife Love You One Day My Wife Compliment Airports In-laws Family Love Mother In Law Kids Love Wives Love

Author:Lionel Richie

“I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.”

Mother Wish Understanding Wife Compassionate

Author:Alana Stewart

“Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.”

Mother My Own Wife Wives And Mothers

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.”

Way Years Sometimes Mother Wife Heard Criticism Males Complaining Worried Colleagues Reservations

Author:Jill Abramson

“I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.”

Mind Believe I Can Would Be Running Remember Mother House Sound Wife Sick Shoes Tales Mind Control Old Wives Tales

Author:Eileen Davidson

“I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.”

Young Mother Wife One Day Hopefully Young Women

Author:Tionne Watkins

“Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.”

Christian Joy Mother Wife Son Sorrow Ideals Blessed Saint Thrones Womanhood Footsteps Blessed Mother

Author:John Vianney

“My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.”

Men Home Law Mother Found Wife One Day Bed Men And Women My Wife Broke In-laws Broke Up Mother In Law

Author:Lenny Bruce

“A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero”

Mother Wife Genius Hero Good Woman

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.”

Humans Mother Human Beings Wife Dear Titles Transitory Wives And Mothers

Author:Mary Livermore

“Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.”

Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett

“Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.”

Mother House Wife Crazy Sitting Madness Driving Sitting Around Drive Me Crazy Wives And Mothers

Author:Patsy Cline

“Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.”

Mother Women Wife Son Baton

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.”

“Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.”

Men Kind Children Doe Play Mother Song Wife Brother Drink Husband Mountain Eternal Highest Rivers Mad Wine Notes Fountain Counting Enchanted Flutes Mad Men Taverns

Author:Trevor Hall

“In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.”

Thinking Men Looks Doe Whole Mother Lines Wife Daughter Female Grandmother Ancestry Prudent Marrying

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.”

Men Mother Fire Wife He Man Brother Killing Admire Rome

Book:The Flames of Rome

Source: The Flames of Rome

“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”

Men Matter Might Mother Virtue Our Lives Wife Changed Honor Moon No Matter What Grandmother Threatened Virgins Restlessness Rigidity Faithless Mother Grandmother Wife Mother Togas

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Never paint your wife or your mother.”

Mother Wife Painting Paint

Author:George W. Bush

“God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.”

Ifs Men Feels Children Mother Three Force Wife Husband Possession Attraction Worldly Chaste Devotee Worldly Possessions

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.”

Men Mother Wife He Man Fortunate

Author:Edward Bellamy

“My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.”

“There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.”

World Mother Wife Influence Members Occupation Efficiency Housewife

Author:Eleanor Rathbone

“Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.”

Needs Country Mother Responsibility Talking Wife Bills Clinton Empowering Genes Wives And Mothers

Author:Tina Brown

“Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mother Asks Challenges Responsibility Principles Wife Fairs Creator My Wife London Australia Stable Toms Foxes Cnn Barbara Muslim Women

Author:Khalid Yasin

“During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'”

Said Mother President Wife Impossible Painting Hair Paint Former Interviews Hobbies President George W Bush

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.”

Men Mother Wife Atheism Tools Positive Atheism Manage Priests Maids

Author:Robert Browning

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!”

Knows Men Firsts Mean Children Mother Girl House Wife Bears Husband Married Daughter Affection Teens Another Man Gave Up Widows Marrying Polygamy Stepfathers Marrying Her

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.”

Mother Sex Brain Wife Fashion Lovers Cease

Author:Honore de Balzac

“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.”

Two Enough Play Mother Strong Roles Wife Duty Easier Exercise Authority Contrary Obligation Strong Enough Widows Good Mother Good Wife

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.”

Spirit Mother Wife Style Holy Creatures Glory Filled Holy Spirit Glorious Adam Ornaments Living Creatures

Book:The Life of Luther

Source: The Life of Luther

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?”

Mother Wife Son

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.”

Men May Mother Father Wife Husband Funeral Wives And Mothers Husband And Father

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.”

Feels Home Mother Women Situation Roles Wife Household Screws Housework Housekeepers Wife Mother Women's Roles

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.”

Thinking Men Want Wells Mother Wife He Man Planets Not Afraid One Word Wipe Sweetheart Sister Wives

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”

Mind Children Stills School Mother Poor Pay Class Study Wife Streets Regard Patient Busy Humble Thirty Awe Infant Deaf Widows Trifling Huts

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

“First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.”

Firsts Has Beens Mother Perfect Wife Expected First Lady

Book:First Lady from Plains

Source: First Lady from Plains

“In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.”

States Mother Careers Wife Fame Female Beloved Ties Prize Obscure Beloved Wife

Author:Jane Porter

“Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.”

Men Wells Self Whole Mother Artist Father Teacher Wife Teaching Lovers Husband Scholar Earning Earning Money

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Spirit Mother Artist Fall Enemy Teacher Wife Land Lovers Violent Mates No Friends

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.”

Men Hard Jobs Mother Roles Wife Ancient Myth Scripture Etc Description Legends Goddess Revising Psychoanalytic Temptress

Author:Caryl Rivers

“But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.”

Earth Mother Wife

Author:Leopold Schefer

“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”

Happens Mother Roles Wife Special Example Draws Breaths Planning Ritual Womanhood Widows Qualifications Widowhood

Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard

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