Mother Quotes

I never turned down a mother role.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

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.'

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.