Mother Quotes

• Every mom knows it's hard to take care of yourself while you're trying to take care of your children because, when you become a mother, you become so selfless.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mom

• When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Music
  • She
  • Education

• I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Humility

• My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Work
  • Mother

• My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Live

• I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Great
  • She
  • Character

• Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Emotional
  • Daughter
  • Horse

• I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

  

  Linda Fiorentino
  • Mother
  • Sex

• My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • Family
  • Death
  • Boy

• My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • She
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • She
  • Mother

• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  

  James Joyce
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Age

• My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

  

  John Dawson Winter III
  • Music
  • Mother
  • House

• My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Children
  • She
  • Powerful

• For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Age
  • Free
  • Period

• Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Love
  • Powerful
  • Force

• Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Mother

• I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.

  

  Alexandra Kerry
  • Great
  • Family
  • Lost

• I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Music
  • Singing

• Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Father
  • Society
  • Law

• I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Work
  • School
  • Father

• My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Life
  • World
  • Mother

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