Mother Quotes

• We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Brother

• I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Knowledge

• My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Mother
  • Law

• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Joy
  • Empathy
  • Sadness

• When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Mother

• I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Life
  • Mother

• Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.' 'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.' 'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Good
  • Know
  • Principles

• I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • People
  • Different
  • Guy

• Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Mother
  • Philosophy
  • Leisure

• I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Hate
  • Religious
  • Rain

• The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.

  

  Rachel Billington
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Daughter

• I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

  

  Claude-Michel Schonberg
  • Happy
  • Find
  • Same

• My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.

  

  Eliza Hittman
  • Father
  • Influence
  • Behaviour

• A bad memory is the mother of invention.

  

  Gerald Brenan
  • Mother
  • Memory
  • Invention

• My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • True
  • Memory
  • Sure

• The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mother
  • Joy
  • Excess

• I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • Prayer
  • Would
  • Overwhelmed

• For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Crime
  • Human being

• My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.' He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Father
  • Style
  • German

• 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.

  

  Ayshay
  • Mother
  • Stories
  • Tales

• Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Mother
  • Compassion
  • Addict

• I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.

  

  Kelly Ayotte
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• I think I definitely get my soft side from my mother.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Mother

• My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • She
  • Parents
  • Dad

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