Mother Quotes

I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

I loved my mother and father.

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.