Mother Quotes

Mother Nature is not sweet.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.

Silence is the mother of truth.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.