Mother Quotes

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.

My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

I never felt like I had a mother.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

What least makes a mother is biology.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.