Mother Quotes

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.

Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that."

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.