By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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.

Washington Irving

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, "Mama I want to be a painter."

Marc Chagall

Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

Adam Brody

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

Chastity Bono

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Mary Kay Blakely

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Pope Paul Vi

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Roseanne Barr

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister.

Pat Conroy

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers.

Sandra Dials

My father's Jewish. My mother's Jewish. I'm Jewish.

Daniel Pearl

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene.

Julian Mcmahon

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Tom Driscoll

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

One of the boys' mothers helped with the [claymation] class, and that got him more interested in the language, ... He'd never been interested in speaking the language before.

Sandy Wilson

It's tricky because you have to treat the mother and the baby. The mothers are in turmoil, so we try to reassure them that they will do well and get them to concentrate on delivering the baby.

George Peters

My business grew out of the lifestyle change of society. Life is busy - life has gotten off-the-chart busy. Our mothers had a different kind of life because life just moved at a different pace. Families just don?t live like they use to.

Carolee Cannata

We're not saying that employers discriminate against mothers because they don't like them.

Shelley J. Correll

I thought this was the way the game should be played. I don't know if we've got too many mothers running hockey or what.

Walt Kyle

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common, ... They fear when their babies start walking, they will fall down. They fear their children will feel left out. They fear they won't be the best mothers.

Debby Russell

We are normal people like anybody else. We are mothers and daughters and sisters and brothers, ... We are just like you.

Ray Burrows

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

Rita Rudner

Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose.

Amy Goodman

Post-natal depression is a public health concern for mothers, fathers and babies.

Thomas O'connor

If I'm sitting on the toilet and I'm looking at the grouting on the tiles, that grouting really gets me. Mothers have a thing about grouting.

Sharon Osbourne

My daughter is in her mother's arms.

Ryan Lopez

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

George Eliot

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

Scottish Proverb

Overweight mothers are more likely to have overweight daughters and sons.

Marcia Barber

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father.

Jules Feiffer

It's popular with young mothers because they do all that carting and carpooling of kids.

Karen Weiberg

If the child is the direct beneficiary, then all of the IRA assets go to the child upon the mother's death and are subject to income tax.

Mike Janko

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Agatha Christie

We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.

Kate Allen

God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.

Jewish Saying

I want to make his years good for him where he can have someone he can look up to and help him come out of his shell, ... It's very important. When it comes to fishing, baseball and football, they don't get that from the mothers.

Derek Miller

One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think.

Sean Casey

She followed in her mother's footsteps. She graduated with honors in high school and college and taught first and second grade in San Antonio 40 years.

Gerald Batto

The war affects us here in Newfane. It affects us when our mothers and fathers and sons and daughters are sent off to war, and it affects us in our tax dollars to pay for that war.

Dan Dewalt

I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Paula Poundstone

Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Paula Mitchell

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Anne Heche

I wanted to be around my mother's family. It was really important to me. That was the place where she had spent her life.

Mandy Smoker

She is very devoted to her mother's care. She coordinates the caregivers and visits every three months.

Susan Horton

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

Alice Walker

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

Friedrich List

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Bern Williams

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

Pierre Trudeau

I feel bad for all the families. We are all mothers, and they are all sons.

Lorraine Bynum

There could have been 20 mothers sitting here.

Patricia Arnold

My mother's loss to me is even greater. She held the family together and without her, our family has fallen apart at the seams.

Shirley Rivera

Low income mothers can't pay the price of housing in Barbados. We would love it if Government could rent us land at a reduced price and then eventually we can buy it.

Natanya Nurse

It isn't anything like having your own, ... That could be any of our grandmothers, our mothers.

Stephanie Green

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Margaret Sanger

God, did that put a white streak in my mother's hair! I mean, I ran away from home before it was chic to do such a thing.

Brett Somers

There's so much that has been before the human race, and just contemplating that and then the earliest forms of communication, hand claps, body slaps and then ultimately the drum, which was really the first way that man could imitate the first sound they heard: their mothers heartbeat.

Rick Savage

My mother's mother was full-blooded Yavapai, and my mother's father was full-blooded Apache. On my dad's side it is the same way.

Shanna Ramirez

I'll be fine. I've kind of been living on my own for a while. I know my mother's going to be distraught and upset, but that's something we all have to deal with, get past it and move on.

Chad Topp

It covers the highs and happiness for winning a war to very dramatic parts where mothers have lost their children.

Pedro Tomas

Prior to my mother's stroke, Martin and I had a conversation with her. She felt at some point, [the center] may in fact end up with the government, but she never envisioned it in her lifetime.

Bernice King

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

Mothers are generally reluctant to come. When a mother turns up, she is often a single mother who wants to get evidence to find out the biological father of the child so she can demand compensation.

Cui Yugui

The mother's little helpers of the 1960s and 1970s are all available now on the Internet. You don't have to go and steal a prescription pad anymore.

Catherine Wood

The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.

Greg Forte

I had to be here. I had to support Cindy and I had to support the mothers. I came because what she started is very important. I think it's going to make history. This is the first time when we have some attention.

Nadia Mccaffrey

A lot of time you see mothers with two cubs (the norm). Very rarely do you see them with just one cub.

Tabitha Mullin

Mothers just got it. Men just didn't. They thought they wouldn't be allowed to eat cookies.

Stephen Joseph

The kids who are ages 8 to 18 struggle here. They struggle with the stigma at school. Imagine doing your homework here, in a room filled with mothers and their children, some little and crying.

Ryan Dowd

That's what it's going to take — veterans groups, veterans and mothers who have lost kids speaking out.

George Muller

People have the impression that teens and unmarried mothers are synonymous.

Stephanie Ventura

Children and adolescents tend to be influenced by their mothers. So perhaps we may see something similar start to happen in those groups.

William Dietz

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino

We've had them up since the second week of January and now they're going. Next to Christmas, this and Mother's Day are our next biggest selling days.

Dan Potts

The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very good move.

Lisa Aronson

Not mothers and daughters as much as it is girls and women. Their opinion is being valued, and it's appealing to that part of them that's growing up.

Shireen Dodson

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Heather Mills

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.

Louise Erdrich

He liked the people, the mothers and dads, he liked the children. Every holiday they would bring him cards and candy. They loved him.

Beverly Maloney

I thought of my mother's courage and her nerve.

Robert Nolan

The only protection we have for them now is to vaccinate the people around them, particularly their mothers.

Niranjan Bhat

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Marguerite Duras

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Pearl S. Buck

For the last 15 years of my mother's life she was in a vegetative state, but she was breathing on her own.

Sharon Grant

I carried at least 20 people back and forth to the Jordan Hospital. Everybody was screaming and crying; mothers were confused. ... I was just shocked.

Marwan Muasher

The cows are very good mothers.

John Plese

I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She was worried that it was her mother's car.

Julie Gilbert

We ask the mothers and fathers to keep an eye on those kids when they leave the store. Keep an eye on them, not to let them leave running outside. I hope this will never happen again.

Ted Elian

A lot of (mothers) will say to us, 'I didn't know how they were going to go to prom.

Cathy Lyons

I want to go to bed, ... It's late. You should just sleep at your mother's.

Michelle Brown

We think ... the ice retreated really quickly. We think the mothers had to keep up with the ice and the babies couldn't keep pace and were left behind.

Carin Ashjian

God hears a mother's prayer.

Victoria Gotti

I am surprised how many fundraisers there are here. I also dress mothers of the bride and groom.

Dolores Vaccarelli

The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in many ways -- the gestures and the facial expressions -- but we are dramatically different in other ways.

Dean Falk

We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers.

Bruce Hoffman

When you think of a mother's voice to a baby, that pretty much is very intriguing to babies across cultures, ... That's pretty much universal.

Bob Novak

They are not allowed to gas litters of kittens or puppies, which they did. They're not allowed to gas pregnant mothers, which they did. I mean, there were just so many laws that they were breaking.

Courtney Emken

(They) called me back and said, 'We're going to go in another direction.' Which to me, it's like mother's milk, ... It's what I'm used to. I thrive on people going in other directions from me.

Josh Kornbluth

She'd be the first to say, `What are we doing for Mother's Day? For Christmas?'

Andrea Lopez

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Avram Noam Chomsky

Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.

Nonie Darwish

He'd be fishing in Wisconsin every Mother's Day—without my mother—but it was all right with her because he always came back with fish.

Pat Ruettiger

My mother's going to be 85 and she's never seen anything like this.

Martin Beattie

My advice to young teenage mothers: the only man you should depend on is God, and always put your children first.

Kathleen Boutin

We could have been sitting here 20 years ago and have had the same conversation about autism or schizophrenia, ... And people would have said of course schizophrenia and autism are caused by [the actions of] mothers.

Walter Kaye

The two sides reached an accord to pay 10 million for each of the 426 HIV infected children and 20 mothers who are also contaminated with HIV.

Driss Lagha

There was a man who was missing his mother's funeral for the audition. And the moment we stop discussing it 24/7 really is the moment we should stop doing the show. You can't work on a show like this and not love it.

Kate Thornton

Women are mainly mothers and have their own careers, so it's kind of hard to find someone who would be effective. They just can't drop their careers for something they won't be reimbursed for.

Jerry Lundergan

MOPS welcomes all types of mothers.

Julie Floyd

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

Margaret Mead

We focused on mothers because depression is more common in women than men, and women are more apt to come for treatment. But we suspect the same with depressed fathers.

Myrna M. Weissman

He was cute and handsome, but not in an off-putting or threatening way. He seemed like a guy little teenage girls would love, but also their mothers would love too.

Dan Schneider

Like young children, they aren't always where they should be and they aren't always following along with their mothers and might wander into harm's way ....

David Schofield

And it was around in the 1960s and 1970s as a recreational drug, too. The song 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Rolling Stones is about methamphetamine.

Bruce Freeman

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept, ... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Ralph Lauren

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them.

Otto Rank

She's playing with him and swinging him. It's for new mothers who want to get that weight off from having that baby.

Havi Heber

It's not surprising. Through her mother's whole illness, Bernice is the one that's been looking after her mother.

Lynn Cothren

People talk about how money is the mother's milk of politics. Well, it's the devil's brew. And what we've got to do, we've got to turn off the tap.

Ronnie Earle

Most of the tips were my grandmother's and my mother's which were passed on to me.

Betty Anderson

He said, 'I can send you to jail. I know where your mother lives and your brother. How would you like there to be drugs found in your mother's house?'

Peter Mitchell

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

You want to be close to your child. I can understand why mothers bring their children into the bed, but there are other options.

Amy White

There is no trend of mothers dropping out of the labor force. It just looks like they are because the economy has been so hard on working moms.

Heather Boushey

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Janet Flanner

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

We always had fun together. We enjoyed playing board games together. My mother's favorite was 'Trivial Pursuit' ... she always won. She also loved 'Jeopardy.' She always knew all the answers.

Meghan Bright

I heard children cry, families scream. Some children were yelling for their mothers and fathers.

Oumar Cisse

They started killing everybody, the mothers, the kids. That's when I lost my mom.

Grace Mukasekuru

Before a day was over,Home comes the rover,For mother's kiss—sweeter thisThan any other thing!

William Allingham

Had your father spend more of your mother's immoral earnings on your education you would not even then have been a gentleman.

Seymour Hicks

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Francis Herbert Bradley

Our guys like to compete. You could put their mothers out there and they'd want to beat them. That's what I like to see?who wants to compete?

Brad Fairchild

We've had marriages of 75-year-olds meeting at the gym ... mothers and daughters working out who were both over 70.

Steve Nelson

It was not the mother's call. The professionals around the room consulted together. It was our call. We had to go with what was best for the child.

Julia Dixon

The mothers are very protective of their calves.

John Plese

It's about Isabella and a biological mother's right to raise her child, ... That's the bottom line for me.

Lisa Miller

We seem to have a whole lot in common as women, and as mothers, so that's pretty interesting.

Janet Norwood

My mom and my two sisters are my motivation. I was the baby and they looked out for me. My mother's my biggest fan. She always believed in me, especially when I had doubts.

Chrissy Rainer

I would love to go home earlier -- all the working mothers would -- but my company will not allow it.

Ana Delgado

My mother's intuition tells me he's out there somewhere. We just need to find him.

Tami Erickson

I think it was a good experience for me, just to see another culture. My mother's Korean, so I got to see that side of my heritage.

Wesly Mallard

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

Viktor Yushchenko

...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 Marquez

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

Janet Sacavage

They tell us he'd been dead for quite some time. We love him and we're going to miss him, but he's in a much better place, in my mother's arms.

Richard Cowsill

My mom was cooking all the time. I was always around great food, and so was Sandy. Our mothers could cook better than some of the finest chefs around.

Rich Allison

For a time period during my life, I didn't know whose life I was trying to live ? my mother's or mine. There is a lot to be learned by everyone, and so I began researching.

Joan Randall

I can see the look on my mother's face.

Linda Carpenter

I hate to do it, especially with all the festivities. The governor is going to be here, the band is going to play, it's homecoming weekend, my mother's coming up from Chicago, my college roommates are flying in from different places.

Donald Lipski

Mothers, don't let your sons grow up to be interim coaches.

Frank Hamblen

For the last 5,326 days, I have wondered what it would be like to confront the walking cesspool that took my mother's precious life.

Jeff Davis

These birth mothers tried to make a plan for them that they might have a better life. If they hadn't made this decision, we wouldn't have the three greatest gifts of our life.

Elaine Williams

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Ellen Goodman

I'm happy to be here. My mother's prayers were answered.

Earl Anderson

One of the main things in this is to ask for an immigration reform that is civil and human. One that would not separate mothers from their children, and would not focus on imprisoning those that wouldn't even kill a fly.

Elena Cuevas

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

E. M. Forster

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

Elizabeth Warren

We need to sit down and get this job done. This isn't about Republicans and Democrats, it's about mothers and fathers, ... We will not be intimidated by the NRA.

Zoe Lofgren

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Elayne Boosler

Mothers don't have to face prosecution, they will remain anonymous and cops will not look for them.

Estella Olguin