Mother Quotes

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

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.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

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

I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

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 started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

Becoming a mother has made me even more aware and more passionate about nutrition and wellness. So much so that I am now a certified health coach practitioner.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.