Mother Quotes

• With three younger brothers, we were always very competitive and combative. But my mother always says I get the drive from her.

  

  Kelita Zupancic
  • Mother

• Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

  

  William Blake
  • Mother
  • Infant
  • Groan

• I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Immature

• My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Good
  • Mother

• My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

  

  Johnny Isakson
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Night

• I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus Christ, you will feel the power of heaven blessing you.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Children
  • Home
  • Father

• I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Writing
  • American
  • Father

• My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Luck

• At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Mother
  • Challenge

• My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Grew
  • Fabulous
  • Exotic

• I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'

  

  John Waters
  • Up
  • Home
  • Kids

• I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Mother
  • Alone
  • Wife

• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• 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.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • People
  • Writing
  • English

• We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Mother
  • Earth

• Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Children
  • Daughter
  • Alcoholics

• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Wise
  • Grandmother
  • Grandma

• To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Hand
  • Pride

1

...

167

168

169

170

171

...

245

previous

next