Thursday Thirteen #20

Thirteen Quotes About Mothers or Motherhood!

1. A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother — and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment. -- Anna Jarvis, promoter of the establishment of Mother's Day

2. My mother could make anybody feel guilty -- she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. -- Joan Rivers

3. Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin. -- Lillian Carter, at the 1980 Democratic Convention, where her son was nominated for a second term as US President

4. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -- Tenneva Jordan

5. And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker

6. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert

7. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

8. I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it. -- Rose Kennedy

9. If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. -- Bette Davis

10. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs...since the payment is pure love. -- Mildred B. Vermont

11. Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him. -- Erma Bombeck

12. Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. -- Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons

13. Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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