Mother Quotes
So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
Pat Boone
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
Bernie Taupin
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
David Ortiz
It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.
Joseph Stefano
When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
Mike Wallace
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
Dick Gregory
The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.
Paul Lynde
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
Joyce Maynard
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
Esther Williams
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
Justin Townes Earle
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
Debra Messing
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
Kenny Loggins
Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.
Thora Hird
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.
Marvin Harris
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
R. Kelly
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Terri Apter
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
Alan Hovhaness