Mother In Quotes

#1. There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

Mariama Ba

#3. From a character's mother in THE ROMANCE READER'S GUIDE TO LIFE: "Resentment is the poison you drink yourself hoping it will kill the other fellow.

Sharon Pywell

#4. The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Benjamin Walker

#5. My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

Kevin Spacey

#6. My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

Patricia Heaton

#7. My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Cory Booker

#8. Anyway, I heard you and your Mother-in-Law kicked ass! Shame his daddy'o wasn't around for the family reunion, although I doubted a battle is the right way to say 'hi,my name's Kiera and I am sexing up your son's man stick.

Stephanie Hudson

#9. Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old father; if one dies because one dreams of one's father, what happens to a man who dreams of his mother-in-law?

H. Rider Haggard

#10. As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Audre Lorde

#11. Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#12. ...and this is what grandmothers and mother-in-law and mothers do. They fight for the good.

Fredrik Backman

#13. I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Barbara Bush

#14. I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire ... and turned into one myself. It's made my life since gross and scary and, let's face it, weird.

J.R. Rain

#15. My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.

Joan Rivers

#16. What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

Nancy Reagan

#17. My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'

Les Dawson

#18. I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

Henny Youngman

#19. After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.

Leigh Newman

#20. One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

Rodney Dangerfield

#21. My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

Ann McLane Kuster

#22. Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary.

Tom Clancy

#23. Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats.

Matthew Scully

#24. When a man marries, he should take a good look at his mother-in-law first, to understand where life will take him.

Ashok Ferrey

#25. It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

Sylvia Plath

#26. Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"
Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"
-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.

Peter Manso

#27. Morning a week with her ex-mother-in-law. So she couldn't fault Rafe for keeping his regular stool at the diner she worked at, even if it

Zoe York

#28. Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

David Blaine

#29. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.

Richard Corliss

#30. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

#31. For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.

Jane Leavy

#32. Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.

David Letterman

#33. You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

David Bowie

#34. My father looks at me the way he is looking at my mother in one of their wedding pictures: like he can't believe that she is with him now and will be with him forever, that she has chosen to be with him out of all the men in the known world.

Francisco X Stork

#35. If it's not one thing, it's your mother-in-law.

Len Bailey

#36. Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

John Lasseter

#37. All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

S.L. Viehl

#38. I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Johann Lamont

#39. Mother in my first short story is dead, nobody knows how but she is dead and the father somehow madness or who knows from what he decides to start and play with the dead body. It's really a difficult moment.

Deyth Banger

#40. What happens to the relationship you never had with your mother-in-law when your husband dies?

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#41. I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

Edward Brooke

#42. I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

Justin Trudeau

#43. A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

Karel Capek

#44. Until my early teens, I lived with my mother in New York, and I spent a lot of time in the company of her friends, mostly artists and designers, such as Andy Warhol, Ross Bleckner and Francesco Clemente, none of whom had kids, so I was like their shared child.

Jade Jagger

#45. It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

Chaz Bono

#46. I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

Alexander Hanson

#47. I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Les Dawson

#48. Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

Ian Botham

#49. Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Mark Twain

#50. They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

David Mamet

#51. I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Sally Quinn

#52. We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

Marianne O. Battani

#53. I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Julie Walters

#54. I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

Leon M. Lederman

#55. My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.

Phyllis Diller

#56. My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

Les Dawson

#57. Her mother always smelled like fruit, and Cynthia Poole adored her mother in the way that only fear will inspire.

Bonnie Bowman

#58. They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Lisa Kleypas

#59. Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

Delores Phillips

#60. When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.

Jasper Carrott

#61. I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

Natalie Dormer

#62. Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Logan Marshall-Green

#64. It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.

Jean Chretien

#65. Did you know that if you re-arrange the letters in 'mother-in-law' you can create the phrase 'woman Hitler'?
Holly from Secrets

Sara Daniell

#66. For it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable.

Victor Hugo

#67. Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Juvenal

#68. Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?

Rick Santorum

#69. I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Alexandra Kerry

#70. while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony / is out of the question.

Juvenal

#71. The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

Les Dawson

#72. I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

Seal

#73. My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Phyllis Diller

#74. I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy ... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law ... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!

Pope Francis

#75. Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Julian Of Norwich

#76. Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny.

Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

#77. Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#78. I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

Milton Berle

#79. The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

Allen Toussaint

#80. Or - but this more rarely happened - she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#81. I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

Alan King

#82. But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.

Laura Marney

#83. Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Henny Youngman

#84. For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Jennifer Lynch

#85. I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.

Max Lucado

#86. My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

Seth

#87. Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

Swami Vivekananda

#88. Okay, then, if you're sure," he said again and I almost blurted, "I'd consider hitting my mother in the back of the head with a snow shovel if kissing you was in the cards." But I though that would come off as needy.

John Goode

#89. People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.

Jenny McCarthy

#90. She sees me once in a guy's arms and she has us married already. I wonder what Raffe would think of my mom being his mother-in-law.

Susan Ee

#91. The Sun and the Moon are equated with the Father and the Mother. In the day, look up and remember our God; at night, look up and remember our Goddess - they are with us all the time!

Nancy Chandler

#92. If you wish to serve me, as you have bloodsworn yourself to do, you must do so with honor. And that does not include introducing yourself by name to people like my mother in order to terrify them into submission."
"Kem'falla - " Gaelen protested.
"Don't bother to deny it," she snapped.

C.L. Wilson

#93. This is worse than death. Now i have to spend eternity with my nagging wife and mother-in-law. what did i do to deserve this?

John Corwin

#94. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

Ryan Lilly

#95. I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

Tracy K. Smith

#96. I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

Phyllis Diller

#97. My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Wilbur Smith

#98. Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

Desiderius Erasmus

#99. A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Chynna Phillips

#100. I denied this for many, many years and years ... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

Barry Humphries