Mother Quotes

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

Elizabeth Vargas
- Mother
I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

Naomi Campbell
- People
- Why
- She

My mother, actually, is a therapist.

Samira Wiley
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

Garry Marshall
- Mother
- Parents
- Name
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

Katha Pollitt
- Father
- Death
- Control
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Rachel Cusk
- World
- Mother
- Language
My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

Lauryn Hill Fugees
- Important
- Love
- Morality
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

Imelda Staunton
- Heart
- Father
- Parents