mothers

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

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.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

I__e been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I__e never complained. Shame on you. I__ embarrassed to have a son like you_can__ even look after his own bicycle. You just wait until your dad comes home. Then you__l be in trouble, I can tell you that much.__oul-Erik__ MotherThe Informer

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

We dragged Linc along. His current honey is working tonight.""Still the intern?""Yeah." Helen sat on the curvy velvet chaise, made herself at home. "I'm starting to think he'sgetting serious about her.""And?""I don't know. She's a nice girl, raised well. Focused, which he could use, and independent,which I appreciate.""But he's your baby.""But he's my baby," Helen agreed. "I miss the little boy sometimes, with the scabbed knees andloose shoelaces. Still see him in that tall, gorgeous lawyer in the three-piece suit that strolls in andout of my life now. And Jesus,

What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.

But she loves her daughter, David can tell, loves her the way David's mother loved him, and sometimes David feels that same love he used to, except now it's coming from other places, other people, and it's a good thing the love is coming because he's beginning to think there aren't enough rules in the universe to bring his mother back.

I live three thousand miles away from my mother. But no matter how far away, I'm still hers. I'm brave in the ways she's made me brave and scared in the ways she's made me scared. I'll never belong to anyone the way I belong to her.