Mother Quotes
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A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong her, she'll carry on loving them.
Alaa Al Aswany
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There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
Tiger Woods
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You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.
Adele Griffin
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My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Jack Roy
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The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
Lao Tzu
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By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.
Danielle Crittenden
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There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.
Carrie Prejean
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I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!
Jennie Garth
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When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.
James McBride
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No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.
James Cook
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My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
Andrea Fay Friedman
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I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years.
Cathy Hughes
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O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.
William Watson
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In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.
Marcia Gay Harden
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If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
Anne Bronte
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Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
Anton Webern
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
Suzanne Vega
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My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.
Haley Reeves Barbour
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I love my mother a not-normal amount.
Mary H.K. Choi
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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
William Cobbett
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I do have health insurance (don't fine me, Barack Obama!). And while we agree that career is important, my mother has an AOL email address and shares articles she finds interesting on Facebook by screen shotting and posting a picture of them. So, if mother doesn't understand links, she's not going to understand what I do for a living. I'm confident in my current career trajectory, so this will be another Mother's Day disappointment.
Kate Siegel
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For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.
Pam Brown
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Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
Stephen Covey