Mother Quotes

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

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.

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.