Mother Quotes

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

still can't believe I got married and my mother has never met this person I married.

All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

Poverty is the mother of crime.