Quotations about Mothers
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, bydozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothersand sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one motherin the whole world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery.The mother is queen of that realm and sways a sceptre more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it islove just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S.Buck
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.~Ambrose Bierce
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~MiltonBerle
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fallupon 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 endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and bycar forever after. ~Peter De Vries
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.~Victor Hugo
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers withease. ~Lisa Alther
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strengthas to be never violated. ~Washington Irving
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secrethope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
Now that I'm older....here's what I've discovered:
I started out with nothing....I still have most of it.
I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart.
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
If all is not lost, where is it?
It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.
I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through.
It was all so different before everything changed.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.
When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?
It's not hard to meet expenses ... they're everywhere.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
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In a murder trial, the defence attorney was cross-examining a pathologist. Here's what happened:
Attorney: Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the pulse?
Coroner: No.
Attorney: Did you listen to the heart?
Coroner: No.
Attorney: Did you check for breathing?
Coroner: No.
Attorney: So, when you signed the death certificate, you weren't sure theman was dead, were you?
Coroner: Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jaron my desk. But I guess it's possible he could be out there practising law somewhere.
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