My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny YoungmanAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliI saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.
ConfuciusA father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington IrvingEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her, before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. PeterI am a woman, phenomenally phenomenal woman, that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
Maya AngelouWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. ForsterYou are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard Bach