Mother Quotes

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children: “I’m not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?"

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped me and my brother deal with her passing that much better.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

Sometimes you go through those phases where you take your parents for granted, but I really do appreciate everything my mother's done because I know I wouldn't be here if it weren't for her.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.