Mother Quotes

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.