Mother Quotes

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

My mother was a teacher.

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

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

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everything. She was my closest confidante always. I had no secrets from her.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.