Mother Quotes

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

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.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.