In truth I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her too. And so Krishna is parented by me but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother if it is both he is twice blessed indeed.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is and she lives in Spain.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
My mother enjoyed old age and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
No matter how old we become we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father the mother and the teacher.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Clearly society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect not even my mother.
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible and I cried for three days.
I've been going through photos of my mother looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
For me nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass" Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child but in all reality I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
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.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.
My father who was from a wealthy family and highly educated a lawyer Yale and Columbia walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother a seventh grade graduate who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.
My mother said to me 'If you are a soldier you will become a general. If you are a monk you will become the Pope.' Instead I was a painter and became Picasso.
Like all my family and class I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
I have an almost religious zeal not for technology per se but for the Internet which is for me the nervous system of mother Earth which I see as a living creature linking up.
I always knew that food and wine were vital with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
Sweater n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
For my confirmation I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Yes Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
I've been through it all baby I'm mother courage.
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
When you have a good mother and no father God kind of sits in. It's not enough but it helps.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
My mother was 45 when she had me so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
Of all the roles I've played none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
They claim this mother of ours the Earth for their own use and fence their neighbors away from her and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
A woman must combine the role of mother wife and politician.
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start but where you're going. That's family values.
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding but also approached art emotionally.
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent single-parent cohabiting homes.
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that too. But that one felt all right.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap there to feed and caress him in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Morality and its victim the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible more criminal than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
My mother worked in factories worked as a domestic worked in a restaurant always had a second job.
My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
My parents especially my mother were no influence on me whatsoever.
I've said it before but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him I could see a future.
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
My mother always called me an ugly weed so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker wife and mother.
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
If you ever become a mother can I have one of the puppies?
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer but my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.