Mother Quotes
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Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
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My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
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The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.
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I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.
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My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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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.
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Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
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One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.
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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
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'My beautiful Grandmother - Caroline Garlinghouse - came from Pittsburgh - my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas - through my mother - And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city...My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.'
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I've been to 25 psychics so far. I've even gone to see a woman called 'the mother' who just hugs you.
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One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.
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O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.
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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
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My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatuation, and in fact, he never liked anyone at all after an hour or two, no, no one except a stooge.
