Mother Quotes

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

All I am I owe to my mother.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

I'm the father of four daughters.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

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.

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

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

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

You can't always trust your mother.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

A mother's love liberates.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.

I won't talk about someone's mother. I won't talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!