Mother Quotes
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.
The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.
The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.
The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.
My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.
I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.
The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.
Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.
My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.
Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.
When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.
My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
