Top 100 My Best Mother Quotes
#1. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#2. My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.
Cassie Ventura
#3. There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
Cheryl Ladd
#4. More than once my mother would point out: Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet.
Harry Belafonte
#5. My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
Gary Shteyngart
#6. As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.
Kate Winslet
#7. Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
Tom Shales
#8. My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'
Gordon Smith
#9. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#10. Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Karisma Kapoor
#11. My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
Robert Jordan
#12. My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.
Gail Sheehy
#13. The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mommy pampering. They cut cucumbers and put them on my eyes and my daughter gave me a facial. I'm not even sure what was in it!
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#14. Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
#15. I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
Patti Davis
#16. I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
#17. My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. "Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don't you come over here and give your father a hug?" Hug him? Touch him? How can she even suggest it?
Laura Wiess
#18. The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.
Sandra Vischer
#19. If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.
Laura Schlessinger
#20. Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.
Ayelet Waldman
#22. It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
Lily Rabe
#23. My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
Arabella Weir
#24. For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother.
Doris Lessing
#25. My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
Larry Fitzgerald
#26. I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.
Prince
#27. My mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
#28. My mother always told me that you should wear your best clothing when you are angry, because it would scare people.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.
Frances Hardinge
#30. My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
Natalie Babbitt
#31. He took one look at me and knew I would be his best friend, his partner, his wife, and the mother of his children. He saw more in me in one glance than I'd seen in myself my whole life.
Alexa Riley
#32. Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.
Mother Teresa
#33. Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
Lois Lowry
#34. If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch
#35. Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.
Mother Angelica
#36. My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'
Luke Benward
#37. I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.
Margaret Cho
#38. I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.
Dionne Bromfield
#39. The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.
Leonard Lauder
#40. At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
Wilbur Smith
#41. I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
Ann Richards
#42. When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.
Eric Dickerson
#43. My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
Joe Montana
#44. Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent - admittedly in my own best interest - on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
Mohsin Hamid
#45. I'm riding beside my best friend, and I tell him, in the same offhand tone my mother had used, That's my grandfather's funeral, and he looks at me as if I'm insane.
Nick Flynn
#46. I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
Sidney Poitier
#47. I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
Jane Pauley
#48. There were a few times when Mother Nature hit me with her best shot, but I always managed to land on my feet.
Tina Reber
#49. I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.
Cara Buono
#50. You killed more people than anybody in history."
"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
Orson Scott Card
#51. I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.
Gretchen Carlson
#52. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.
Anne Frank
#53. I'm not going to be like my mother. You're maniacs. You're mad."
"Yes," said Kate. "I know it. And so you won't be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?
Doris Lessing
#54. My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
Tyler Perry
#55. My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
Dakota Blue Richards
#56. My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.
Trista Sutter
#57. When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other.
George Howe Colt
#58. It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.
Alyssa Milano
#59. My mother always said that the best way to connect with anybody who was a mother was to find a way to compliment her child.
Julia Claiborne Johnson
#60. My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.
Clemence Poesy
#61. I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi
#62. I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.
James Best
#63. My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.
Rashida Jones
#64. My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
Diego Maradona
#65. Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
Martin Amis
#66. The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
Lionel Richie
#67. I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'
Colin Angle
#68. When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano.
Herbie Hancock
#69. I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'
Darrell Hammond
#70. Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.
Maud Lindsay
#71. I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
Carrie Fisher
#72. My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
Andrea Jung
#73. I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
Josie Loren
#74. I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.
Jennifer Lopez
#75. I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
Julie Andrews
#76. My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'
Jesse McCartney
#77. My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.
Elise Broach
#78. You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.
Cherie Blair
#79. 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or saw ye my mother?
Or saw ye my brother John?
Or saw ye the lad I that I love best,
And his name it is Sweet William?
Cassandra Clare
#80. My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
Marian Keyes
#81. My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
P.J. Harvey
#82. My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.
Wylie Dufresne
#83. Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.
Alexandra Stoddard
#84. One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
Mayim Bialik
#85. I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
Kate Bush
#86. When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
Margaret Mahy
#87. My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
Rickey Henderson
#88. Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
Larenz Tate
#89. The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
Zoe Tapper
#90. I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother ... It was my father ... It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.
Jeff Buckley
#91. Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
Hunter S. Thompson
#92. One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations. My father did that for me, and no amount of effort on my part can fully repay the debt. I'd do anything for him, and for my mother. Now
Lisa Wingate
#93. I happen to like being sad over nothing at all. I find it suits me. (Ewan)
A smile would suit you better. My mother always says that a smile is dressing for the face. (Nora)
And I always say the face, much like the body, is best left naked. (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#94. Your mother left me because I slept with her best friend. My personality had nothing to do with it.
Colleen Hoover
#95. My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
Maria Shriver
#96. I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
Morgan Freeman
#97. I'm just living my life and I'm being the best mother that I can and showing that on 'Teen Mom' because that's what that show is about.
Farrah Abraham
#98. While looking one's best was important to my mother, looking natural took precedence.
Betty Jamie Chung
#99. One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
Audrey Niffenegger
#100. My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery.
Melissa Rivers
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