Quotes About Understanding

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.