Mother Quotes

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.