Mother Quotes

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

"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 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.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

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.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

In the difficult moments of life, Christians can turn to the Mother of God and find protection and care.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.