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Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.
— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
— Anne Lamott
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
— Steve Maraboli
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.
— Brandon Lee
She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.
— Ida Hattemer-Higgins
An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.
— Rick Riordan
My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.
— Jane Kirkpatrick
Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.
— Jane Austen
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
— Andy Van Slyke
The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.
— Sarada Devi
I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
— Cherie Lunghi
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
— Sheena Easton
You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality.
— Aerin Lauder
Rest easy, real mothers. The fact that you worry about being a good mother means you already are one.
— Jodi Picoult
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
— Samuel Smiles
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
— Joanne Harris
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
— J. Ogden Armour
Hasn't my mother warned you that I've never been good at sharing?
— Christina Lauren
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
— Ruta Sepetys
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
— Roz Chast
The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both!
— Jennetta Billhimer
I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.
— Alexa Vega
I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.
— Anne Robinson
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
— Claire Denis
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
— Vivienne Westwood
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
— Judith Viorst
My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
— Vidal Sassoon
It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.
— Helen Hunt
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
— Jane Fonda
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
— Pete Seeger
Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.
— Jean Alesi
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
— Chazz Palminteri
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes ... And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
— Jodi Picoult
She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother
— Lorrie Moore
If steak is the tuxedo of meat, and bacon is the candy of meat, then a good cheeseburger is the mother's hug of meat.
— Jim Gaffigan
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
— George Bernard Shaw
The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
— Bill Murray
Our stories are what we have," Our Good Mother says. "Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
— Julianna Baggott
I loved my mother, she's a good girl.
— Charles Manson
Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
— Mother Teresa
She imagined that her mother's soul had passed into this good man and had come to live close by her.
— Victor Hugo
He's too tired to squirm clear of her, which is good 'cause pinching and kissing and hugging will calm an Italian mother-person better than anything.
— D. James Smith
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
— Meghan O'Rourke
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
— Dick Gregory
Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.
— Maggie O'Farrell
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
— Audrey Hepburn
My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.
— Sarah Shahi
Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.
— Marie Clair
My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.
— Salman Rushdie
Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
— Lionel Shriver
With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.
— Sarah Polley
So far so good. I had a recently widowed mother and her orphaned son crying hysterically. Maybe for an encore I could shoot the family dog.
— Robert B. Parker
The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother.
— Massimilla Harris