Mother Quotes

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

I've got a single mother.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.