101 quotes found
“MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stoppe...”
“I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.”
“I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?”
“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from...”
“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”
“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”
“But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.”
“Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.”
“Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.”
“Of course she’s right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?”
“Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.”
“The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection”
“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”
“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.”
