My Mother Quotes

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, "Marry him, you'll double your wardrobe."

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.