The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
Thomas Friedman
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and... →
Anna Friel
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love... →
Erich Fromm
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky... →
Mariella Frostrup
In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.