Mother Quotes

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

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

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.