Mother Quotes

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember ...

It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of gi...

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les...

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their...

We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I...

What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care...

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix...

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobo...

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grade...

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo geno...

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d...

Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the ...

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are th...

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to ...

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These ...

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren a...

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Lonelin...

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. ...

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight ...

Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I...

While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior an...

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to se...

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's...

- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightsh...

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I c...

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter...

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...

But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. I cannot overcome my too sel...

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all righ...

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of expl...

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between...

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker...

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She al...

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel...

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from hig...

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even wh...

Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open ...

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care e...

See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enrichi...

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without w...

Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He pra...

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her...

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by som...

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand...

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should...

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast...

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could...

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted ...

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at lea...

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petti...

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a ...

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but thes...

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ...

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, a...

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...

I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that fr...

I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great ...

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the i...

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mo...

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my ...

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the...

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m...

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.