Mother Quotes

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

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 must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.