Mother Quotes

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.