Mother Quotes

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I never felt like I had a mother.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

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

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.