Mother Quotes

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

I've got a single mother.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.