We’ve touched on a lot of weighty issues in this space over the past few weeks – downtown re-growth in the City of Poughkeepsie, changes sweeping the Hudson Valley, the continued progress of Walkway Over the Hudson – so this week seems like an especially good time to take a step back and reflect on one of the most important parts of life – moms.
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and in honor of matriarchs everywhere, here’s a collection of quotations paying tribute to those women. And thank you, mom.
“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
“Sweater, n.: Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” – Ambrose Bierce
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” – Oscar Wilde
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.” – Robert Frost
“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother – which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.” – Sydney J. Harris
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. – Barbara Kingsolver
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” – Anthony Brandt