My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.
Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
When a child is born the mother also is born again.
I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.
It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
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