Mother Quotes

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .

When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

Open your heart and love and be loved, my mother still loves me. She's 96.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

My mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union.

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.