Mother Quotes

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.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

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 female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

The older I become, the more I think about my mother.

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

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.

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.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

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!

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.

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.

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.

As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.

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.

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

Mother's love grows by giving.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?