Mother Quotes
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O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.
Elisabeth Elliot
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My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
William Shatner
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Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
H. P. Blavatsky
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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
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My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.
Judy Blume
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
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My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
Janine di Giovanni
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac
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We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
Chuck Close
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When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.
Ertharin Cousin
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Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
Patsy Cline
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When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.
Sarah Dessen
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
Emilio Estevez
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita Diamant
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When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
Logan Marshall-Green
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Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.
Allen Tate
