Mother Quotes - Page 290

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.

On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

All mothers are working mothers.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

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

The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.