"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."

Mother, May, School

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."

Exlpore more Mother quotes

"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."

Karen Carpenter, American Musician

Mother, Being

"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

Mother, Father

"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."

James MacArthur, American Actor

Mother,

"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Mother, Protection, Parenting, Boundaries, Love

"She was a genius, my mother."

Sally Kirkland, American Actress

Mother, Genius

"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."

Sigourney Weaver, American Actress

Mother, Thought, Career, Film

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Mother, Eating

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

Tina Turner, American Musician

Mother, Church, Rivers

"My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it."

Whitney Houston, American Musician

Mother, Truth, Lie, Fight

"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."

Chely Wright, American Musician

Mother,

Explore more quotes by Mary Kay Blakely

"Our humor turns our anger into a fine art."

Anger

"It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home."

Home

"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass."

Divorce

"Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'"

Life

"The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years."

Knowledge

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."

Mother