Mother Quotes

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

Oh, I've got the prettiest mother. I've got the nicest mother. That's what I tell everybody. I say I've got the sweetest mother in the world.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

A mother beyond compare Have a lovely day Mom

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

[My mother] made the money to send me.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.

When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.