The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.
It’s alright, kiddo. I’ll love you no matter how you are. No matter if you are gifted or not, your mother and I will love you all the way to the end of forever...
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
Let me have two locks of your hair, and help my mother plait them into a bow-string for me. "Does anything depend on it asked Hallgerd". "My life depends on it replied Gunnar.
MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.
Going back to something is harder than you think." I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.
Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.
Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.
As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.
I think you mother has Asperger's," Georgie had said to Neal. "They didn't get Asperger's int he '50s." "I'm just saying maybe she's on the the spectrum." "She's just a math teacher.
The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks.
A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.
Your mother just carried you literally. The one who really gave you to her is the one who really knows about the main problem you were meant to solve!
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.
She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
