Mother Quotes

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.

I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Money is not an issue to me. My mother always tells me, money, it comes and it goes.

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Natural-born American means you don't have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

Listen, Sebastian," he whispered. "That beautiful sound belongs to us for the rest for our lives. That's your mother. She's sunshine. No matter what happens in our lives, we have that.

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.