My Mother Quotes

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.

From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

Unfortunately, on my father's side we have a nonexistent relationship. But my mother and sister and I live very closely, we remain in the same city and we see each other every day.

My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my father.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

My mother was my greatest fan.

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.” “It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.