Humor Quote by David Eddings

“Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick and ever-ailing…

— Charles MacKay

“This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The mother needs mothering too.”

— Susan Schneider

“...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.”

— Susan Squire

“Sometimes it's nice to be sick, to give up trying to function, to crawl into bed and be cared for a little.”

— Laurel Snyder

“I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.”

— Phillip McGraw

“a mother, don’t you want your children to be better than you are?”

— E.N. Joy

“Right then, he thanked his mother for the coldness she'd taught him; for the clarity it could bring, for the protection it represented. Because…

— Ais

“good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless.”

— Melody Anne

“He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they’d…

— Noah Gordon

“There is no such thing as a carefree childhood, only a childhood that shifts the burden of care onto someone else. [Mom] is that…

— Steve Rushin

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin