Mothers Day Quotes - Page 6

I really learned it all from mothers.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.