Mother Quotes

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.

Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan." Is it Nate?" She calls me Honeylips.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.