Mother Quotes
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Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
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I see my own mother now, as clearly as I had the day she watched me leave. She should have fought for me, protected me with her life.
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Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.
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My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
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On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!
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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
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I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
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I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in terms of how she raised me and my little brother, the values that she instilled in us, the way she inspired us, and how she lived her everyday life.
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My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
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The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.
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When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.
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The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.
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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
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'Why did you marry me into this family, mother?' said Lipa.'One has to be married, daughter. It was not us who ordained it.'
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It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
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I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
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Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
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It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
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I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.
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I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
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I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
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I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.
