Mother Quotes

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

I always thought my mother was so damn cute!

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

The mother of creation is vanity.

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.

I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is very much the chemicals in our environment and in our food.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Well o' course she's feelin' dandy! She's the mother o' God for the love o' Pete!

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

I only really ever hug my mother. Is this okay?” he asked. I laughed. “It’s hard to get a hug wrong.

Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

I have a daughter and a family.

Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.