Mother Quotes

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

My mother was ahead of her time as a woman.

You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.