Mother Quotes

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?

I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

The pine is the mother of legends.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth.

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

Does your mother know that you're carrying a gun? I'm going to tell her. I'm going to call and tell her right now." Joe Morelli's mom

You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter." Mrs. Apusenja - To the Nines

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.

Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.