Mother Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

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.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

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.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

My mother is a walking miracle.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.