101 quotes found
“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”
“He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you,...”
“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.”
“As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if ...”
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
“Definition of Father's Day: Same as Mother's Day but you don't spend as much.”
“My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.”
“No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."”
“Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.”
“Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.”
“No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
“There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible her mother's cookbook and her father's checkbook.”
“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”
“Dad named his first ulcer after me.”
“It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.”
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.”
“My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.”
“Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.”
“There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.”
“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
