Mother Quotes

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

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

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.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

Death is the mother of beauty.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.

If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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."

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination." "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.