Mothers Quotes

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.