Mother Quotes

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.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.