Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You never meet your mother-in-law on the day that you are welldressed.

Creole

He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin.

English

A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.

Ethiopian

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be cooked together but they will never be tender.

French

Judge a man not by the words of his mother, but from the comments of his neighbors.

Hebrew

If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer's passing.

Lebanese

What reaches the mother's heart will only reach the father's knees.

Polish

There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.

Russian

The daughter-in-law wipes away what the mother-in-law has seen.

South American

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.

Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!

Saving Henry: A Mother's Journey

We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

The Mother at Home

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

Liars, Inc.

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Casey's flesh and blood sends the war machine's children to exclusive private schools.

Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism

My prayer is that before they die, all people know that they are loved

What Mother Teresa Taught Me

What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.

Peter Noone

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

Meghan O'Rourke