Mother Quotes

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er

My mother was the making of me.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

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'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.

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

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.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

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.

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.

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

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

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

I really learned it all from mothers.

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.

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

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

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.