Mother Quotes

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.

I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

God hears a mother's prayer.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Hope is the mother of faith.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!" "Mom!"Leo cries,turning bright red.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.