Mother Quotes

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.