Mother Quotes

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

I'm the father of four daughters.

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

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

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

All I am I owe to my mother.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

I really learned it all from mothers.

I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.