Mother Quotes

I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'

I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset when I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous.

On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

Experience is the mother of custom.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother.

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in subsequent editions, I do not know.

[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!