Mother Quotes

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.

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.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.