Mother Quotes

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

My mother is fine. For me it perfection.

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

So you're mother? Nice to put a name to a face.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

For me, as a mother, I am just, you know, I just can't put into words how important it is for every American, for every mother, for every person in this country, to have healthcare.

I think any family would, any mother would their children.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some celebrity's daughter, just be me and find people that like me for me.

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.

I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.

My mother made us eat all sorts of vitamins and supplements, until one day I nearly choked on part of The Sunday Times.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.