Mother Quotes

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

We want a plan for a clean energy future...an end to global warming...Moms know about sustainable energy. After all, mother love is an unending supply and it keeps kids healthy.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

I'm dedicating my time to going on tour and basically juggling music, modeling, and being a mother. Being a mother is obviously the most important.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.

I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable.

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.