Mother Quotes

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Lorna Luft
- People
- Up
- Time
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

Jason Kilar
- Up
- She
- Father

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

Marge Piercy
- People
- Life
- Work
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

Martin McGuinness
- People
- Father
- Religious
'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.

Ani DiFranco
- Up
- Father
- Road
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

Camille Paglia
- Mother
- Jesus
- Rude
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Amy Tan
- Time
- Mother
...his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive - hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev!

Kapil Dev
- Mother
- Father