Mother Quotes
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.
The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.
Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
