Mothers Day Quotes
Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.
Linda BerdollDavid Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.
Shaquille O'NealTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will DurantI didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
Marie OsmondIn Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
Michael LewisStrange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty FriedanMothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill WattersonMothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
Cathy GuisewiteHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
Alice WalkerI don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
Jimmy Carl BlackMothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie GallagherNo country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Phyllis SchlaflyIf kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
Andrei PlatonovTheir mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Margaret AtwoodMothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John Fitzgerald KennedyAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar WildeMost mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher StoweMen are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle