My Mother Quotes

• I love me some Mariah Carey. I grew up on that because of my mother.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • I Love
  • My Mother
  • Mariah Carey

• I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Money
  • Doctor
  • Medical School

• I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

  

  Bono U2
  • Religion
  • I Remember
  • Chapel

• In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • People
  • Philosophy
  • Parent

• I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • My Mother

• My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • God
  • Political Correctness
  • I Believed

• I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was lost. I can't speak specifically in terms of why and how he got to where he was - that was his journey. All I can tell you is, he was overwhelmed by life... My mother basically did all the work, and then they got separated and I didn't see him for a long time. He didn't try to help the family financially or spiritually, and I lived with the effects of the chaos.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Guy
  • Journey
  • Chaos

• It is a sunny fall afternoon and I’m engaged in one of my favorite pastimes—picking chestnuts. I’m playing alone under the spreading, leafy, protective tree. My mother is sitting on a bench nearby, rocking the buggy in which my sister is asleep. The city, beyond the lacy wall of trees, is humming with gentle noises. The sun has just passed its highest point and is warming me with intense, oblique rays. I pick up a reddish brown chestnut, and suddenly, through its warm skin, I feel the beat as if of a heart. But the beat is also in everything around me, and everything pulsates and shimmers as if it were coursing with the blood of life. Stooping under the tree, I’m holding life in my hand, and I am in the center of a harmonious, vibrating transparency. For that moment, I know everything there is to know. I have stumbled into the very center of plenitude, and I hold myself still with fulfillment, before the knowledge of my knowledge escapes me.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Knowledge
  • Tree
  • Sister

• My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Children
  • Condition
  • My Father

• In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Moved
  • My Mother

• The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Left
  • Letter
  • I Wrote

• My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

  

  Edith Konecky
  • My Mother
  • Make Sure
  • Insisted

• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  

  Edward B. Lewis
  • Education
  • Proud
  • Priority

• My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Advice
  • Forget
  • My Mother

• 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
  • Tongue
  • My Mother
  • Fatherland

• People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship

• For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Scared
  • My Mother
  • Find Out

• My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

  

  Eva Herzigova
  • My Mother
  • Secretary
  • Electrician

• I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Person
  • My Mother
  • Abode

• Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Music
  • Education
  • Human being

• My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Kids
  • Drama
  • Born

• My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Model
  • Married
  • Role

• Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.

  

  Kao Kalia Yang
  • Reason
  • Choose
  • Love Is

• I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Ugly
  • My Mother
  • Features

1

2

3

4

5

previous

next