Mother Quotes

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.

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

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

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.

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.

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

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

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

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.

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

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.

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

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!

Children are gleeful barbarians.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her to get the chance to pick out what I'm going to wear for eternity.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

A mother never fully delivers.

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I definitely want to buy my mom a house once I get enough funds. I think that's definitely something that I want to do. I think that any person, it's their dream to buy their mother a house.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

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.