Mother Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

Storm, Rain, and Sunshine, huh? (Talon) My mother’s doing. I’m just glad she stopped at three. I was told the next one would have been named Cloudy Day. (Sunshine)

One cannot remember mother and forget God.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their curly red hair is.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I'm inspired by my family, especially my mother.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.