Mother Quotes
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.
Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.
I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.
The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.
For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible
Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.
The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.
I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'
With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?
Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.
I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.