My Mother Quotes

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.