Mother Quotes

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

Bobbie Ann Mason
- Bad
- Mother
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

Philippa Gregory
- Home
- Mother
- Lost

My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.

Phoebe Philo
- Good
- Fashion
- Nasty
I used to adore my old man because he was always so kind. That's one of the most beautiful things I have in my life - the way my father and mother were. And my father was a real ugly man. So it doesn't matter if you look like a gorilla. You see, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.

Paddy Chayefsky
- Life
- Real
- Father
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

Pat Conroy
- Book
- Mother
- Wind
I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.

Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
- People
- Good
- House
I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

Katy Manning
- Time
- Mother
- Stop
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

Frederica Mathewes-Green
- Father
- Reading
- Church