Mother Quotes

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

I think girls are the most beautiful when they become a mother.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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.

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.

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.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry.