Mother Quotes

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

I punched my mother out once.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.