Mother Quotes

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account.

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael’s eyebrows furrowed. “My mother’s approval isn’t necessary.” Aha. “Does she know that?

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

We are always children to our mothers.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.

To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low standard for communication.

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.