On famous relatives – First I was my mother’s daughter..and now..I am my daughter’s mother !

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

MY MOTHER GETS DRESSEDIt is impossible for my mother to do eventhe simplest things for herself anymoreso we do it together,get her dressed.I choose the clothes withoutzippers or buckles or straps,clothes that are simplebut elegant,...

I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my...

The opinions about contraceptives have changed with families a lot over the years. I find that mothers are much more accepting these days.

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me...

Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of “mother.

Anna: Ash, I don’t have anything planned with my Mother… She’s dead.Ashley: What?Anna: She died when I was seven. She drowned. It’s just my Dad and me. I didn’t tell you before because I just...

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

What do you think of when alone at night?Do not the things your mothers spoke about,Before they took the candle from the bedside,Rush up into the mind and master it,Till you believe in them against...

Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it’s only in a lighter mood… she just jokes.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

A lot of customers from the streets come because of their mothers. Guys telling their parents, mothers, grandmothers that they’ll go to church on Easter. They try to keep those promises and, of course, they...

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They’re the most vicious creatures in the world.

Most young men are such bores. They haven’t lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now,...

Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty’s mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.

I’ve been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I’ve never complained. Shame on you. I’m embarrassed to have a son like you…can’t even look after...

Yes it’s true, you wake the child inside of you up because you’re a Mom!

Good wombs have borne bad sons.”– (Miranda, I:2)

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Have we ever wondered a mothers silent cries? Her struggles, her fears and her worries? Do we ever have time for this in our busy lives? Have we ever thought of the sacrifices she has...

Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.

Out of all the fathers in the world, I am the most like Mother Theresa. Also, I am childless.

It’s like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don’t please her – I get shut out.

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she’s gone, it’s a whole different game.

I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies – a whole passel of babies, more than I could have – so she understands how it kills me now that she won’t...

My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a blank expression- What an awkward woman am I. My heart has longed for...

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of...

If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them?

The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors...

It’s all your fault, Mother,’ said Larry austerely; ‘you shouldn’t have brought us up to be so selfish.’ ‘I like that!’ exclaimed Mother. ‘I never did anything of the sort!’ ‘Well, we didn’t get as...

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are questioning their choices – even if it has nothing to do with them…....

At the end of the day, can you look back and say to yourself, “Today, my mother would be proud of me because I gave it all I had”? If you can, you will have...

MOTHER – By Ted KooserMid April already, and the wild plumsbloom at the roadside, a lacy whiteagainst the exuberant, jubilant greenof new grass and the dusty, fading black of burned-out ditches. No leaves, not yet,only...

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

A good mother is irreplaceable.

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.

I had a dream about you. I walked by and you whistled like I was a piece of meat. And I was a piece of meat—I was a thin slice of ham. You were two...

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on...

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large….” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.