Mother Quotes

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.

I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother

I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

If Im brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.