Quotes About Understanding

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Rodney the ghoul?...Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him.

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.