Mother Quotes

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Death is the mother of forms.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.