Mother Quotes

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.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

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.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.