Mother Quotes
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Barbra Streisand
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I like my body so much more now since having my baby. It”s just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It”s been beautiful.
Nelly
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I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
Peaches Geldof
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My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
Kirsten Dunst
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One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
Mayim Bialik
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The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.
Allen Toussaint
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I am a proud mother.
Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
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Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.
Carol Thatcher
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The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother
Nancy Chodorow
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I get my light eyes from my mother.
Irina Shayk
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When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.
Jack Roy
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I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.
Marcia Cross
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My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
Bradley Cooper
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My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
Lizzo
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
Karrine Steffans
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My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
Ben Affleck
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As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.
Leah Remini
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To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
Sara Willis
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On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.
Róisín Murphy
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
Warren Farrell
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My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
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He was smiling. It was one of those sincere smiles grown-ups give kids when they’re trying to get them in arm’s reach for something bad. Doctors smile that way right before they give you a shot; teachers look the same just before they tell you they found out what you did. The Big Bad Wolf probably smiled at Red Riding Hood like that when he was pretending to be her grandma. Despite all my mother’s flaws including her mean streak, I never once saw that travesty of an expression on her face.
Pat Cadigan
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I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.
Allegra Huston