A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

My mother is old, but she jokes around. She lives in a senior living home. After a certain age some people don’t like joking. They take her sarcasm the wrong way. I get that from my family. Everybody talks over each other. The first time I took my wife to my family reunion, she said, “I don’t know what’s going on. I can’t do this!”

Father’s Day just be Mother’s Day the sequel.

The most important job anyone can ever have is being a mother.

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children – Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

Failure is the mother of success mother. I learned from that passion and sincerity.

It’s an emotional need for a mother to have the maternal desire. Either it emerges from the accidental loss of a child or the incapacity to have their own child.

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? ‘Tis that every mother’s son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for the benefit of others. I always marvel at what an indelible and honorable contribution she has made and hope to be able to make a similar impact over the course of my life and career.

There are no rules within this house of mine – I am no mother regular, forsooth! A cool mom I, ’tis so, Regina, yea?

The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience. His mother and fear impelled him to keep away from the white wall. Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light. So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him – rising with every mouthful of meat he swallowed, with every breath he drew. In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I’ve always wanted to be – a mother.

Your mother was beautiful.” His voice was regretful. “I’m sorry she’s dead.

Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn’t lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went – another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns – I wouldn’t find her.

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I’ve given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn’t waste time or paper on a being you didn’t like. But I think I’ve loved you since we met at your mother’s funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry – until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. “My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.” I stopped.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother’s devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around – under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here.

My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother

She is more Mother than Queen

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

My mother never raised me to ask for a handout.

My mother saw me being attacked. She cried when I left engineering for this cause. She understood my fight, encouraged me. I remember all those who were with me in this struggle, including two colleagues who were killed. Whenever I free children from slavery and take them back to their mothers, the tears of happiness in their eyes are like blessings of God. When I see the faces of liberated children, I find their smile of freedom divine and it gives me divine strength. I never feel I’m liberating them, rather it feels like they’re giving me freedom.

That is what you’re making of the end of your mother’s life, child. What will you make of your own?

My mum was slightly stressed because she didn’t want it to make my condition worse and it is a big risk factor with the stress. Exercise kind of exacerbated the condition but as long as they knew it wasn’t going to make me worse they were happy.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

I Want To Make As Much Money As I Possibly Can So That When My Day Comes, My Mother And Sister Is Fine. My Close Friends Are Fine. They Don’t Have To Worry About Anything Ever Again

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she’d get one-syllable answers.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants the friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh.
For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard –
The treble of heaven’s harmony.
These things he plants who plants a tree.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

I was lucky because my mother worked extremely hard, and our family always had food to eat.

My mother gave me a ball, and from then on, there was only football in my life.

I’m very attached to my family. My mother is hard on me when she has to be, and that makes a huge difference. Their support means I need concentrate only on playing.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby’s face.

Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl’s wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded…I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed…I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

I know that I will have a relationship with this woman until the day I die. I have tremendous loyalty to her. She’s the mother of my children. How could I be nasty or vindictive to her?

Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV – the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

I’m not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

By now, you’ve probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.

I saw Kim Nam Ju and Yu Jun Sang sing ‘Trouble Maker’ on ‘Unexpected You,’ and my mother really liked it. That’s why it’s the most memorable.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

I was my mother’s favorite, and she’d help me with everything

My mom is very religious—Catholic—and from a young age they brought me to the church.

It’s so much better, where possible, to try and forgive offenders and give them a second chance, just like my mother and father did so often with me as a child.

Night is the mother of counsels.

My childhood favourite is mum’s shepherd’s pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It’s because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To Find in the left one Its consolation.

Growing up with an alcoholic father and watching your mother struggle to keep the family together gives you a big insight. I learned ruthless determination early on.

Mother Teresa’s numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Every mother contains her daughter in herself, and every daughter, her mother; and every mother extends backwards into her mother, and forwards into her daughter.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

The greatest moment of my life was when I was eight years old and asked my mother what the capital of Uruguay was. She didn’t know, but she took me to the library where I found out it was Montevideo. It was like a huge light went on in my head. That was it.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that ‘while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.’

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

I’m not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But, listed separately, I have a few good features.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long survive their mother

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

My own mama warned me bout you f**k n*gg*s. Even she say that you look sneaky, can’t be trusted.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

I’m going to be the lady my mother raised and carry myself with class and dignity… But I will never be any man’s press opportunity.

It’s not imagination on my part when I say that to look up at the sky, the clouds, the moon, and the stars make me calm and patient. It’s a better medicine than either valerian or bromine; mother nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Silence is the mother of truth.

God gave me an opportunity, this is my platform for me to reach people. I tell everybody like my mother told me, it’s not what I make, it’s what I share. That’s why I’m still here because I share a lot.

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

My father’s love was always strong / My mother’s glamour lives on and on / Yet still inside, I felt alone / For reasons unknown to me.

My mum and my dad. They both like to sing, they have really nice voices. And my sister and brother are good singers too.

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother’s expectations of him.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.

I don’t think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.” No arguments will give courage to the coward

So it’s an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn’t have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts — you know, they, they kill children. It’s a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom

My Mother is a walking Miracle.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

That was pretty much my life. I’d say, ‘Mama, how come some people ain’t nice?’ She’d say, ‘Well, probably because they wasn’t breastfed.