Mother Quotes

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

Ever since I was a little girl, I always loved fashion. I would watch my mother get dressed and suggest things she should wear.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

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.'

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.