Mother Quotes

• I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Children
  • School
  • House

• I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • She
  • Kids
  • Father

• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Free
  • Hand
  • Wisdom

• I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.

  

  Loni Love
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when we were driving together, she would pull the car over, and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car, I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.

  

  James Veitch
  • Time
  • She
  • Together

• I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

  

  Alexis Stewart
  • Mother

• My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • She
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.

  

  Bernice King
  • Up
  • Money
  • Father

• We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

  

  Jim Foglesong
  • Good
  • Music
  • True

• I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

  

  Gayle King
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Self
  • Breathe

• I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

  

  Agnes Macphail
  • Mother
  • Father

• Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Mother

• Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

  

  Little Richard
  • Attention
  • Company
  • Sing

• A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Wife

• It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

  

  Anna Freud
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Lost

• I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Women
  • Career
  • Strong

• Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

  

  John Cusack
  • Life
  • She
  • Guy

• When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

  

  Christian Cota
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Grandmother

• I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

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