Thoughts
05.19.08
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Father never forgot or forgave Mother for words she once spoke that shook him to his Scottish core, words that rattled the very foundation of his heritage. During the spring of booming 1929, she handed Dad a larger-than-ever sheaf of bills for the five-children homefront, and he exploded: “How in good conscience can you spend so?!” To which Mother replied with a happy truthfulness that was gunpowder to Father’s fire, “But I love to spend money.” -- Malcolm Forbes (1975) |
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can
be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West
Reinhart was never his mother’s favorite—
and he was an only child.
—Thomas Berger
My mom was fair. You never knew
whether she was going to swing
with her right or her left.
—Herb Caen
Take motherhood: Nobody ever thought
of putting it on a moral pedestal until
some brash feminists pointed out, about
a century ago, that the pay is lousy and
the career ladder nonexistent.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking
dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
—James Joyce
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers
to help them through their troubles?
—Louisa May Alcott
You’re not famous until my mother
has heard of you.
—Jay Leno
The only time a woman wishes she were a
year older is when she is expecting a baby.
—Mary Marsh
Instant availability without continuous
presence is probably the best role a mother
can play.
—Lotte Bailyn
In our society mothers go on getting
blamed until they’re 80, but shouldn’t
take it personally.
—Katharine Whitehorn
The real menace in dealing with
a 5-year-old is that in no time at all
you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.
—Jean Kerr
Some things I never learned to like.
I didn’t like to kiss babies, though I didn’t
mind kissing their mothers.
—Pierre Trudeau
If evolution really works, how come
mothers only have two hands?
—Milton Berle
There’s nothing like a mama-hug.
—Adabella Radici
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
All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy. No man does.
That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde
All women dress like their mothers.
That is their tragedy. No man does.
That’s his.
—Alan Bennett
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A Text ... As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. -—Ecclesiastes 11:5Sent in by Ruth Egert, Chesapeake, Va. |
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