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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Sep 10, 2025
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Men are what their mothers made them.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.