Mother Quotes

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...

it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'

The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.