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Quotes About Understanding

How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Mothers can forgive anything!
~ Louisa May Alcott
I'm your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.
~ Maria V. Snyder
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
~ Mason Cooley
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.
~ Megan Fox
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.
~ Mitch Albom
Mother lode of learning.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
~ Paullina Simons
You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
~ Priscilla Presley
What least makes a mother is biology.
~ Oprah Winfrey
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
~ Rachel Cusk
Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.
~ Raquel Cepeda
Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
~ Sade Adu
Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.
~ Lita Burke, Old Bony Blue Eyes
Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
~ Margaret Cho
My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
~ Kourtney Kardashian