Mother Quotes
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It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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'Why did you marry me into this family, mother?' said Lipa.'One has to be married, daughter. It was not us who ordained it.'
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We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.
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I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.
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I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
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It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
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My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.
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My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.
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My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
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I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers
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Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
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Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
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As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.
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Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
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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.
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The officer said No and his mother was frantic.
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It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
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My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.
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My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old.
