Biological Mother Quotes

#1. I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

Kim Cattrall

#2. Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Michael Reagan

#3. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Steve Jobs

#4. Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Kim Cattrall

#5. The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

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

Frances Bean Cobain

#7. My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

Tonya Harding

#8. I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

Jennifer Gilmore

#9. You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.

Andruw Jones

#10. As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

Lucy Punch

#11. A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

Victoria Secunda

#12. The only words that matter flow from the cracks in our spirit, through the breaches in our resolve.

C.B. Shiepe

#13. Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.

Bill Ballance

#14. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. even if you count back only four or five generations, you have an enormous number of living biological relatives descended from those ancestors. This is why it's not very unusual if you are descended from George Washington or another founding father or mother.

James Peoples

#16. My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

Keegan-Michael Key

#17. It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Herbert Spencer

#18. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

#19. The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.

Debasish Mridha

#20. A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Angela Carter

#21. Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

Sean Combs

#23. Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it?

Thomas Sweeney

#24. My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

Katherine Heigl

#25. Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.

Alan Jacobs

#26. I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.

Albert Camus

#27. The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. Mother energy is universal. It is the large expression of the sacred feminine that comes from spirit. It is embodied in all our biological mothers, but its not limited or confined to them.

Elaine Seiler

#29. The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#30. When people say "to father," they generally mean that one biological act - the act of begetting a child. It is different with the verb "to mother." "To mother" implies care. A man's act of fathering can easily be that one seed sown; a woman's act of mothering can take up all the rest of her life. I

Deborah Meyler

#31. The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Anton Chekhov

#32. I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

Carol Shields

#33. Our present intricate humanly consciousness evolved after a long journey of struggle. And the beauty of natural selection is that our struggle against nature made us worthy of being rewarded with the 3 lbs. lump of highly advanced biological computer by our Mother Nature herself.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

Vin Diesel

#35. There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#36. My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

Laura Benanti

#37. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Betty Rollin

#38. These "so thats," "becauses," and "whens" were like regulations; in decided to avoid them in order not to--

Peter Handke

#39. Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

Margaret Mead