Mother Quotes

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

Back-to-School Chats, Advice from Mothers to Their Daughters.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start stealing stuff while I still had no fingerprints.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.

I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!