Mother Quotes

• The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, before she let them go.

  

  Joel Rosenberg
  • She
  • Students
  • Clock

• The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

  

  Wynonna Judd
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Daughter

• He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Funeral

• There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw 'The Color Purple,' it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.

  

  Anna Diop
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

  

  Jay Livingston
  • Children
  • Mother

• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • History
  • Genius
  • Escaped

• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Mother
  • Giving

• My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very small - it could have been the basement of a church or a black box. The space was vast, but there were maybe 15 seats in the middle. Ariel came out wearing a nude sparkly thong and spike heels, and the muses had these gossamer see-through gowns on.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Black
  • Small
  • Space

• ...To the mother hubbard girl, whose name seemed to be Janie: ‘It becomes you, it does really, that chunk of filthy butter muslin, but then you’re the sort of girl who could get away with anything, even having one tit bigger than the other.’ He did a comic oenophil act with the bottle of Marsovin...

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I've always loved big eyes, like those of Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. But my mother didn't allow me to wear make-up until I was 15.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Mother

• My mother was the center of the family.

  

  John Major
  • Family
  • Mother

• My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Book
  • Mother

• My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • She
  • Night
  • College

• My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Warrior

• I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Children
  • Hand
  • Divorce

• My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

  

  John Major
  • Mother
  • Father

• Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Father
  • Giving

• I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

  

  Leeza Gibbons
  • Mother

• My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

  

  George J. Mitchell
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Son

• Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Men
  • Country
  • Children

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