Mother Quotes

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

You can be a mother and still be completely sexy.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!

oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country