Mother Quotes

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

  

  Les Dawson
  • Mother
  • Law

• It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Dream
  • Daughter
  • Miracle

• I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Mother
  • Wife

• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mother
  • Virtue
  • Humility

• 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 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

• I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who's ringing at this time?' We just wouldn't answer the phone.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Time
  • Remember
  • House

• As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

  

  Segolene Royal
  • Children
  • Mother

• Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Book
  • Mother
  • Fall

• When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

  

  William Lipscomb
  • Mother
  • Chemistry
  • Sets

• In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard .You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Children
  • Father
  • Beautiful

• My mother made me truly appreciate women.

  

  Drake
  • Women
  • Mother

• For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

  

  Eileen Favorite
  • Mother
  • Novel
  • Bookworms

• My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Mother
  • Style
  • Ambition

• 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 always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mother
  • Hair
  • Complexion

• When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Mother
  • Spring
  • Goddess

• If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Age

• I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

  

  Ainsley Harriott
  • Mother
  • Interest
  • Teenager

• Some of the most productive times in the histories of nations have been when they were badly stressed - economically, politically, culturally or socially. It's possible to be stressed to a point that more creativity is stimulated than would otherwise be the case. I think it is true that necessity is the mother of invention.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • True
  • Mother
  • Creativity

• Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

  

  William Herndon
  • God
  • Parent
  • Bless

• 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

• Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Mother
  • Want
  • Actors

• We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

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