Mother Quotes

• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Clark Gable
  • God
  • Hope
  • Death

• There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Children
  • Judging
  • Motherhood

• My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Mother
  • Sacrifice

• For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Time
  • Different
  • Father

• This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Problem
  • Fall
  • Matter

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Mother

• We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • War
  • Hatred

• 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

• When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • House
  • Morning
  • Born

• I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I remember vividly, as a kid, my mother had 'Jesus Was a Capricorn' and used to listen to it over and over and over.

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Listen

• I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

  

  Etta James
  • Place
  • Kid
  • Runaway

• My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Mother

• For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Wisdom
  • Perfection
  • Family Union

• My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

  

  Gary Delaney
  • Mother
  • Herself
  • Blinded

• I've basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn't see myself moving there. That feeling exists for my mother and people of her generation. They say, 'Hopefully, one day.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

  

  John Hurt
  • Life
  • She
  • Father

• My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

  

  John Waters
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• Margaret Thatcher is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in subsequent editions, I do not know.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mother
  • Knows
  • Entry

• At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Mother
  • Thriller

• I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • People
  • Mother
  • Earth

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