Mother Quotes

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler!

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.

Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.

From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

One hour with Mother is more than Without her, an age.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

My mother loved people and she loved conversation, and she loved to engage with people. She was a really fantastic person. You would've really liked her.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Mothers can forgive anything!

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.