Mother Quotes

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

I never turned down a mother role.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

My mother had me sort the eyes

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

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.

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.

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