Mother Quotes

Harmony is about bringing things into balance and knowing how to go from sunrise to sunset. Mother Nature teaches this to us, in so many ways, each and every day.

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.

The happy family is a myth for many.

The mother of all living.

She's somebody's mother boys you know For all she's aged and poor and slow.

A mother is a mother still The holiest thing alive.

What is home without a mother?

There is none In all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep strong deathless love save that within A mother's heart.

I arose a mother in Israel.

The bravest battle that ever was fought Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not It was fought by the mothers of men.

Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

Her children arise up and call her blessed.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

We are born of love, Love is our mother.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

My mother was never very famous when I was growing up, so it wasn't so difficult. It was only when I left home and went to university that she become this style icon.