Mother Quotes

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.