Mother Quotes

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

Every person is born from an natural disposition, and the mother and father will make him into a Christian. So, I do believe that we are all born as Muslims, and, as we mature, we make decisions.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.