Mothers House Quotes

#1. Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

Patricia Polacco

#2. I've loved every version of you there's ever been. I'll love whoever comes back. My

Jamie McGuire

#3. Work ... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#4. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present?

J.M. Coetzee

#6. The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

Zeno Of Citium

#7. Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#8. The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Elias Canetti

#9. I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream
I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

Phyllis Diller

#11. It doesn't matter how big you are, it matters how big your thoughts are.

Debasish Mridha

#12. There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Robbie Robertson

#13. I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

Ariel Gore

#14. When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

John Barth

#15. Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with me or my brothers and sisters.

Ayana Mathis

#16. I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Roy Ayers

#17. While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

Bill Cosby

#18. I had Benia's hands, Meryt's friendship, the feel of newborn flesh, the smiles of new mothers, a little girl who laughed in my kitchen, a house of my own. It was more than enough.

Anita Diamant

#19. Danny and I were sposed to go to his mother's house for Thanksgiving. Now what? What do I tell his mother?
Well, not this. Mothers hate it when you tell them their sons are queer.

Vanda

#20. I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house.

Linda Leigh Hargrove

#21. When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

Jerry Weintraub

#22. She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

#23. It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Jodi Picoult

#24. Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#25. Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Bob Dylan

#26. A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Douglas Sirk

#27. Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.

Patricia P. Pinegar

#28. Partisanship must end at the waters edge.

Harry S. Truman

#29. It involves no disrespect for Mrs. Truman to say that her daughter gets a bigger hand than she does,' observed Richard Rovere. 'This country may be run by and for mothers, but its goddesses are daughters. Margaret's entrance comes closer than anything else to bringing down the house.

David Pietrusza

#30. So I'm smoking in the house, Mother said. And Bobbie's got a dog in her room. And your son Will's got an Injun in his. So there it is, Mother said. Like it or lump it!

Tom Spanbauer

#31. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau