Mother Quotes
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."
My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers.
