I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area.  Praise God for my mom's good example in how to eat.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm.""Voyons, do you think that is what I like?

When your mother asks Do you want a piece of advice? it s a mere formality It doesn t matter if you answer yes or no You re going to get it anyway

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down togethe

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

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.