Mother Quotes

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

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.

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.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

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.

I dig being a mother.

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.