It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
Thank you, beloved mother Thank you, beloved mother my star from dawn! without you I am afraid that the planet would get colder. I have worn your vigor, you have grown me, you have...
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.
My mother is a walking miracle.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
Murphy's mothers laws: If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
Murphy's mothers laws: Small, teething children will chew on the most valuable thing within reach. The same goes for puppies and juvenile tigers, bears, or crocodiles.
Murphy's mothers laws: You can fool some people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool Mum.
Murphy's mothers laws: If your kid grows up to be like you its an insult, not to you, to the kid.
Murphy's mothers laws: A child will never ask Mom to get something until she sits down.
Murphy's mothers laws: Murphy's mother told him so.
Murphy's mothers laws: Mothers always know. We don't know how - they just do.
Murphy's mothers laws: There are always two sides to a story - the way it really happened and the way mother remembers it.
Murphy's mothers laws: If the job of a mother is going smoothly, she thinks she isn't doing it well.
Murphy's mothers laws: Never tell your mother you have nothing to do. She can always find something.