Mother Quotes

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.