Mother Quotes

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

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.