Mother Quotes

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Society's the mother of convention.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

I just admire my mother very much.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Biggest influence: my mother.

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

My most important identity now is as a mother.