Mother Quotes

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

A Mother is the heart of the home

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

I am thrilled to be 31, still running and having my daughter watch me even if it is on TV.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

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.

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.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.