Quotes About Time

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

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

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

One hour with Mother is more than Without her, an age.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

Open your heart and love and be loved, my mother still loves me. She's 96.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.