Mother Quotes

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

Persistence is the mother of personal change

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

She was a genius, my mother.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.