Mother Quotes

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.