Mother Quotes

[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.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

When a child is born the mother also is born again.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

My mother insisted that her children read.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.