Mother Quotes

• Invention is the mother of all necessities.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Mother

• I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Children
  • Mother

• One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Mother
  • Father

• I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Mother

• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Children
  • Kitchen
  • Snow

• When I was young I hated my body because it was so thin - now I try not to look at it too much because it's so old. There perhaps might have been just six months when I felt comfortable with it - when I discovered alcohol for the first time and learnt to drive and was fattening out and had just met your mother.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Alcohol

• At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Children
  • Flower
  • Kindness

• I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

  

  Renato Dulbecco
  • Father
  • Born
  • Italy

• My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

  

  John Boyega
  • She
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I have never in my life let a man disrespect me, verbally or physically, and that will never change. I feel very strongly about this because it's something my mother instilled in me and that I have instilled in my daughters.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Disrespect

• A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • She
  • Environment

• Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Mother
  • Knows
  • Loses

• The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Mother

• Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

  

  John Sergeant Wise
  • Mother
  • Service

• On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

  

  John Sulston
  • Mother
  • Father

• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

  

  William James
  • Lying
  • Individual
  • Accepting

• My mother was very protective of her four boys.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • Mother

• My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

  

  Andrew Lo
  • Mother
  • Cancer

• The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • World
  • Mother
  • Football

• I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Life
  • Great
  • Raised

• You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Way
  • Woman

• It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.

  

  Tad Devine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Book

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