Quotes About Understanding

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. A mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

My mother was my best friend and confidante.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.