Mother Quotes

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

I love my mother. I do love her.

Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

I absolutely love being a mother.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.

I loved my mother and father.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

I did shoot a movie called 'Mother's Day', and I really can't wait for everybody to see that. I had so much fun shooting that with Jennifer Aniston, which was kind of surreal in itself.

Being a mother for me was like, "Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life." This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply.

My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.