My Mother Quotes

I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

Twitter should ban my mother.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

Education is the mother of leadership.

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.