Mother Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.~

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency...(and) God will sustain us through our trials.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.