Mother Quotes

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

Thank God for your mother.

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

If I were president, I would turn the tables and allow the fetus to abort its mother.

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

Mother came to New York to keep house for me.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll just find my way through. And that's what I always did. I never changed too much of that.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.