Mother Quotes

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.