Mother Quotes

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

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

I was a mother's boy.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

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.

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.