Mother Quotes

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.