Mother Quotes

Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

She is more Mother than Queen.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.