Mother Quotes

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

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.

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

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

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

If we can find peace within ourselves, within our families and communities, and heal Mother Earth in small ways, we can create a measurable shift in our world.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.