“Mother, may I go and maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?”

“I cannot bear a mother's tears.”
Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.

“Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.”
You both sound like my mother,” I said.
Shut up!” they both said in union.”

“Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.”

“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”

“Mary sheds tears because men call her "The Mother of God."”

“Children fall into a world of drugs while their mothers cry bloody tears!”

“What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.”

“I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.”