My Mother Quotes

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth

All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.