My Mother Quotes

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?

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

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Life is what happens in-between the mother and the sister

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.