I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine…

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

— Pearl S. Buck

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

— Anonymous

“Every disappointment that came to me brought with it an enduring lesson that repaid me eventually tenfold.”

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway."

— Joan Rivers

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

— Diane Cilento

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

— Bil Keane

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

— Mignon McLaughlin

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

— Steven Morrissey

“Maybe that's what marriage does, Helen thought. One day you're holding your breath lest a ghost fly up your nose and the next your…

— Sonja Yoerg

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

— George H. W. Bush

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

— Mark Twain

My father was married to mother 'til the day he died, for over 64 years. He's why I kept trying to get the marriage…

— Steve Harvey

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

— Stephen Daldry

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me…

— Bob Monkhouse

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

— Karen Carpenter