Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.
I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.
I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.
She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has a way of removing one's inhibitions.
I think good advice for a father to give to his only son would be, "Don't make the same mistake I made with your mother. Remember to pull out.
you are as fleetingly beautiful as a mother’s tears and a father’s pranks a brother’s bachelorhood and a best friend’s bad mood a bride’s glittering jitters and a handsome stranger’s smile.
My mother-in-law scared the hell out of me. But it’s cool, because the stench of Satan reminds me of her anyways. Hungry? Deviled eggs anyone?
There is one tree in Gainesville I call "Grandfather" because it looks like a giant Bonsai tree. Well, that and I actually thought it was my mother's father for the longest time.
Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.
I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.
It was probably my mother's screaming that frightened the cat. It's just a guess. No one knows for sure why a cat fell from a ten-storey building onto my head.
Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...
If your clothes are enough to drive would-be friends away, they're not the kind of friends you want." Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and completely useless.
