Mother Quotes

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

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.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

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

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.