Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
3 more quotes from Harriet Ann Jacobs
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
33 other views 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 thoughts from Nelson Algren
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
4 more quotes 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 thoughts from Billie Holiday
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 quotes from E. W. Howe
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 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Men are what their mothers made them.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
3 more quotes from Arnold Bennett
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
6 thoughts from Benjamin Spock
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
58 more views 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 quotes from Patsy Cline
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 quotes from Ethel Waters
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 views from Ethel Waters
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
6 wisdom & wit from Helen Hunt Jackson
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
10 more quotes from Louisa May Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
9 other quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
11 more quotes from Rebecca West
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
9 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Ethel Merman
My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
9 views from Ethel Merman
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
26 views from E. M. Forster