Mother Quotes

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

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.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

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

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

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.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

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.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.

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

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

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.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.