Mother Quotes
My foster mother wanted to create a family home. For me, she had made a place that I felt I could always go back to, and that was what she was trying to do for these kids.
Lennie James
When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.
Geoffrey Canada
Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.
Emily Oster
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
There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
Merle Haggard
When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.
Lynn Whitfield
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.
Saint Augustine
When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
Karl Lagerfeld
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
George M. Cohan
My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.
Alicia Keys
Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.
Marie Helvin
My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.
Frank McCourt
I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.
Liz Murray
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
Elizabeth Moon
To be a good mother - a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.
Mary Wollstonecraft
For me, the one relationship in my life that I cherish the most has to be the one I share with my parents, especially my mother.
Amruta Khanvilkar
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
Anupam Kher
I needed to be there to support her, as a mother and as a human being, ... All mothers should pay attention to what she is saying.
Nadia McCaffrey
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.
Blake Lively
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.
James Dobson
I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.
Walter Wangerin
