Mother Quotes

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.