Quotes About Mother

#1. After all, Sergios was not all bad. He was tough, ruthless, arrogant and selfish, but while he might have the morals of an alley cat, he had been remarkably kind to her mother.

Lynne Graham

#2. I was coming to understand that my mother did not hate me, only that some days, she hated loving me.

Tamara Valentine

#3. This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse.

Constance O'Banyon

#4. we have forgotten how to press our fingers
to the tilting planet's jugular and measure
her pulse. we have forgotten symbiosis,
that she is our mother.

we have forgotten that when we rape
our world we rape ourselves.

Beth Morey

#5. I did love Kolkata as a mysterious woman, the beloved, my mother ... I dont the outside world, my world is Kolkata ... I do want to live, but Im certain that the death of Kolkata will bring my end

Sukanta Bhattacharya

#6. It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations
Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Cher

#8. I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

Eartha Kitt

#9. Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

Mickey Rourke

#10. Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#11. The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#12. She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!

Stephen King

#13. 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

#14. My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.

Scott Adkins

#15. I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

Bedrich Smetana

#16. Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

John Hume

#17. People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#18. A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes ... And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Jodi Picoult

#19. After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.

Emily Giffin

#20. When I was little, my mother told me there are basically two kinds of people in the world: town people and circus people. The kind who stay are town people, and the kind who leave are circus people.

Cathy Day

#21. That my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not - of

Booker T. Washington

#22. A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.

Montserrat Caballe

#23. May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don't abandon me. Don't abandon me, my Mother! - And recommend this prayer to others.

Josemaria Escriva

#24. Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read ... and read again!

Robert Evans

#25. -she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow.

Laura Frantz

#26. The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

Natasha Trethewey

#27. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#28. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

#29. It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

James Cook

#30. I look a lot like my father and his mother.

Sade Adu

#31. My Life is bad because of my mother and father... choices..., they made the wrong choices.

Deyth Banger

#32. Motherhood is a blissful chain ... I have a mother - my precious gift ... I am a mother - the best of my kind!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#33. My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Kevin Spacey

#34. 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

#35. My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

Danny Aiello

#36. 'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.

Richard Rogers

#37. Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. She said her mother has a strap-on named Event Horizon.

Darynda Jones

#39. Mother of the bride had been determined that her daughter would have a church wedding, and women who successfully name their infant daughters Tiffany do tend to get their own way, so an evening wedding it was.

Donald E. Westlake

#40. There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#41. Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

David Rockefeller

#42. When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

Scott Baio

#43. A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

Gelett Burgess

#44. And I can't wait to see what your mother thinks about all of this, too." I paused, shaking my head. "No one stops to consider their mothers. It's a pity." "You

J.R. Rain

#45. Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her to pick up. If only, I thought, it was that easy for me.

Sarah Dessen

#46. Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

David Zucker

#47. 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

#48. The Brat - Victoria to her second-grade teacher, Vicki to her mother, but the Brat to her father and in her heart - was

Joe Hill

#49. We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

Mack Sennett

#50. Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Franz Grillparzer

#51. Sometimes I caught my mother digging through old photo albums or staring at the wall or out the window. She'd get that look on her face that I knew meant she missed my father. Not enough to want him back. She missed him just enough for it to hurt. On

Sherman Alexie

#52. His mother collected medicines, rather in the way a boy collects coins or seals or arrowheads; one or two genuine pieces, along with a whole load of junk.

K.J. Parker

#53. On the day of his mother's funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved
anything or anyone, I said, Go to hell.

Jenny Han

#54. I'm going to claim her so there's nothing to protect her from. I'll make her mine, fill her with my seed and it will plant there. She'll make an excellent mate and mother to my young."
-Brawn

Laurann Dohner

#55. Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

John Milton

#56. My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.

Candace Camp

#57. I've got a hat face. My mother always said I've got a hat face.

Jenny Eclair

#58. We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead

Jane Austen

#59. 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

#60. She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Kate Atkinson

#61. [On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

Lindsay Davenport

#62. My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I want. She knows and even though she would not destroy a tissue sample or love someone who is not her Match, she still loves us, even though we have done those things.

Ally Condie

#63. The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

Jools Holland

#64. I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Andre Rieu

#65. My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

Giovanni Ribisi

#66. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.

Bijou Hunter

#67. My father consulted my mother on everything. "Pekai, help me resolve my confusion on this," he would say.

Malala Yousafzai

#68. My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Jane Goodall

#69. If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Judith Viorst

#70. The appearance of a pest should be regarded as a warning from Mother Earth to put our house in order.

Albert Howard

#71. My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

Jay Rock

#72. Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. "Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.

Deborah Blake

#73. I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

Rashid Johnson

#74. I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

Helena Bonham Carter

#75. I have learned that feat is the mother of fearlessness, and the beginning of possibility. spoken by Paul Hogan and recounted.

James Orbinski

#76. She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

Ida Hattemer-Higgins

#77. I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

Beatrice Lillie

#78. I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.

Chloe Sevigny

#79. An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#80. Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance of color and lipstick being one of them. I started skating when I was eight years old, and my mom did my makeup for me back then.

Gracie Gold

#81. I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

Heather Morris

#82. I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#83. You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.

Gene Wolfe

#84. My
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could

E. E. Cummings

#85. When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

James McCartney

#86. Smoked sausage and a jolly tupping. Ale and folly. Fickle bosoms and bar fights. That is the sum of experiences my souls gathered from their lives. Why do I attract all the unsophisticated fancy men? For once could one love the opera and his mother?
- Lucinda Myer, b. 1702-d. 1808

Amber Kizer

#87. The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Dick Cheney

#88. He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young. - Isaiah 40:11

Gary Chapman

#89. The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

David D. Aitken

#90. My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

Hillary Clinton

#91. Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs

Lauren Oliver

#92. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

Charles Perrault

#93. Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Meryl Streep

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

Rodney Dangerfield

#95. When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. "You must go back to sleep," her mother tells her, "It's not time." From what she understands, the Prince hasn't come to rescue her yet.

Mads Sukalikar

#96. Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he was never meant to have it.

Belinda G. Buchanan

#97. Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.

Bob Hope

#98. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.

Beatriz Williams

#99. A boy grows and marries and leaves. He belongs to another woman, but a girl always belongs to her mother.

Kate Atkinson

#100. His mother said that all children were arsonists at heart, and if not for the lighter he'd have used matches.

Margaret Atwood