Mother Quotes

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

God hears a mother's prayer.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.