Mother Quotes

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?'

Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.

I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Silence is the mother of truth.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.