Mother Quotes

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes...

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all...

I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answer Japane...

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, fal...

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I me...

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good ...

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned....

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into th...

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakne...

[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hai...

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry...

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that...

While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would make a...

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will ...

I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everythin...

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that an...

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something tha...

I love you every day,Mom

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som...

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped ...

Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's he...

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

Every family is a ghost story.

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...

...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous ...

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...

The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is P...

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the...

I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell...

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with...

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used t...

Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to ind...

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came....

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some...

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't d...

What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whoppi...

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and be...

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a ...

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother...

Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion an...

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they becom...

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will ...

What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span ...

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo...

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your ...

The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimi...

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It'...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It'...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sol...

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and ...

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and h...

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just th...

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my ...

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of th...

But not you, O girl, nor yet his mother,stretched his eyebrows so fierce with expectation.Not for yo...

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and sh...

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe...

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learn...

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware...

To My MotherYou too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times,And you may chance to he...

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards...

...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had on...

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the ne...

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...

If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would foll...

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight...

We are born of love, Love is our mother.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was d...

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, a...

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody th...

And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old me...

My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of ...

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was...