Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
11 wisdom & wit from Rebecca West
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
9 other quotes from Ethel Merman
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
9 other thoughts from Ethel Merman
My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
9 quotes from Ethel Merman
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
3 other wisdom & wit from Harriet Ann Jacobs
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
2 other thoughts from Nelson Algren
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
4 other wisdom & wit from Maxim Gorky
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
5 quotes from Billie Holiday
Men are what their mothers made them.
135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
3 quotes from Arnold Bennett
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
53 other wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
23 other wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
6 more quotes from Benjamin Spock
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
4 other sayings from Patsy Cline
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
4 other wisdom & wit from Ethel Waters
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
6 quotes from Helen Hunt Jackson
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
4 more views from Ethel Waters
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
13 wisdom & wit from Amos Bronson Alcott
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
10 other quotes from Louisa May Alcott
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
9 views from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
98 other thoughts from Mark Twain