Mother Quotes

[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?

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

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.

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

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?

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

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?'

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?

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 a single mother when my child was little.

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 am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.

Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.