Mother Quotes

Fear is the mother of foresight.

My mother always wants me to put me on a diet.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

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

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.