Mother Quotes

• When it mattered the most, my mother was there for me. It was the moment that erased all those days she wasn't there.

  

  Leah Remini
  • She
  • Mother

• The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Lust

• A mother should never be blamed for working.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Mother

• If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Education
  • Chances
  • Medicines

• The revolution comes when two strangers smile at each other, when a father refuses to send his child to school because schools destroy children, when a commune is started and people begin to trust each other, when a young man refuses to go to war and when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has 'taught' her and accepts her boyfriends (sic) love.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• Wearisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • May
  • Relationship

• He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Morning

• My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

  

  Laverne Cox
  • People
  • She
  • Teacher

• I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Beautiful
  • Dad
  • Friend

• I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Long
  • Children
  • Alone

• I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.

  

  John Cornforth
  • Children
  • Father
  • English

• My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

  

  Leon Jouhaux
  • School
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Different
  • Culture

• Both my grandmother and mother used to wear the Red Roses cologne, and when I was 21 or 22, I smelled the same scent on a friend of mine.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Friend
  • Red
  • Grandmother

• The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Country
  • Today
  • Community

• The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Time
  • Music
  • War

• My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

  

  John H. Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Children
  • Home
  • Baby

• Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Beautiful
  • Action
  • Nurse

• I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Eyes

• Years ago, I did an interview about my mother for a publication called 'Info' magazine, and during that interview I told the reporter about my mother's leiomyosarcoma. She had had a hysterectomy, but at the time of it, the doctors didn't even think to look for sarcoma.

  

  Peri Gilpin
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

• The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mother
  • Science
  • Effort

• Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Life
  • Done
  • She

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