Mother Quotes

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.

I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.