Mother Quotes
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That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.
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Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
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I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.
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I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
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We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.
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My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
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So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
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I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.
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Patience is the mother of joy.
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I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
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I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a mother and daughter, a teenage girl and her mom, to be able to come to the show and both enjoy it on the same level.
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She's my mother and the Queen.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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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.
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My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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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.
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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance.
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We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
