Mother Quotes

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

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.