Mother`s Quotes

• I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Doubt
  • Evolution
  • Mother`s

• We're all inclined to think we have a monopoly on each new sensation that comes to us, that it's our own particular little grievance. But every feeling and every thought you may have now has probably been felt and thought by mothers from the time the world began.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Sensation
  • Monopoly
  • Grievance

• Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska, jungles in Africa, castles in England, slums in London, gardens in Japan, or most important of all, into happy homes where there were mothers and fathers and no Mrs. Mondays or Marybelles.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Children
  • India
  • Palaces

• In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Children
  • Politicians
  • Unmarried

• Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Children
  • Mistake
  • Judge

• Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Child

• I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Difference
  • Careers
  • Profession

• Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mother`s
  • Fathers
  • Considerate

• Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

  

  James T. Farrell
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Mother`s

• We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

  

  Alveda King
  • Women
  • Moment
  • Pregnant

• Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

  

  Lisa See
  • Extraordinary
  • Ordinary
  • Mother`s

• Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Air
  • Develop
  • Department

• Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Force
  • Pregnant
  • Elemental

• Working mothers become masters of time management.

  

  Katherine Ellison
  • Working
  • Masters
  • Mother`s

• Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Memory
  • Mother`s
  • Englishmen

• My colleague Rachel Yehuda studied rates of PTSD in adult New Yorkers who had been assaulted or rapes. Those whose mothers were Holocaust survivors with PTSD had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after these traumatic experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that their upbringing had left them with a vulnerable physiology, making it difficult for them to regain their equilibrium after being violated. Yehuda found a similar vulnerability in the children of pregnant women who were in the World Trade Center that fatal day in 2001. Similarly, the reactions of children to painful events are largely determined by how calm or stressed their parents are.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Problems
  • Experiences

• Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.

  

  Plato
  • World
  • Give
  • Mother`s

• Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

  

  Arabella Pollen
  • Children
  • Love
  • Feel

• I wanted people to kind of take a peek to see that the pain, even though you may see them out at the Democratic National Convention or at Essence Festival or any of these other places, that the pain is still very real for these women from the "Mothers of the Movement".

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Women
  • Pain
  • Movement

• I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Children
  • Connection
  • Mother`s

• Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

  

  Debra Evans
  • Identity
  • Discovered
  • Provided

• ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Mother`s

• Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Mother
  • Light
  • Perfect

• It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

  

  Sophocles
  • Marriage
  • Dreams
  • Mother`s

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