Mother Quotes

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif

I'm your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.

"Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin."

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...

I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.