Quotes About Mothers

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

If you knew the trouble we've had because Howl will keep falling in love like this! We've had lawsuits, and suitors with swords, and mothers with rolling pins, and fathers and uncles with cudgels. And aunts. Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.

Mothers shouldn't be allowed to get old and fragile.

It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories.

It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons.

If he has none to give him pain, he has none to give him pleasure. She never expressed doubts about the way she raised children..she continued to believe mothers influence was paramount in her children's future development, she also understood no one was perfect.

My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.

He was an obstetrician; he delivered babies into the world. His colleagues called this 'the Lord's work.' And he was an abortionist; he delivered mothers, too. His colleagues called this 'the Devil's work,' but it was all the Lord's work to Wilbur Larch. As Mrs. Maxwell had observed: 'The true physician's soul cannot be too broad and gentle.

with disgust. 'You know what mothers are like,' Nosh shrugged. 'Yeah, but your mum doesn't go round showing you up,' I pointed out.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.

The Little War? How can there be a little war? Are some deaths smaller than others, leaving mothers who weep a little less?

Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax

Some of the dirtiest dogs, past and present, had mothers.

My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.