Mother Quotes

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

Only your mother could find you attractive, and only your mother could love you.

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.

I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway."

My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds.

My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.