Mother Quotes

I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I never felt like I had a mother.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.