Mother Quotes

• My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • World
  • Proud
  • Taught

• If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Mother
  • Thing
  • Your

• I just admire my mother very much.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Mother
  • Admire

• Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Vote
  • Policy
  • Chocolate

• I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Spirit

• Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Strong
  • Way
  • Wife

• More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Son
  • Solitude
  • Accoplices

• The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Water
  • Advice

• My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Advice

• Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

  

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • Patience
  • Nurse
  • Physician

• It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Different
  • Daughter
  • Blessing

• A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.

  

  George Ella Lyon
  • Mother
  • Things
  • Heavy

• Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

  

  Homer
  • Running
  • Tears
  • Arms

• Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Child
  • Kindness
  • Guarding

• There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Mother
  • Losing
  • Heal

• My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Practice

• My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Rip

• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Mother
  • Free
  • Really

• 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

• She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Mother
  • Attraction
  • Comforting

• 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.

  

  Katherine Stinson
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Afraid

• Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Mother
  • Forgiveness
  • Atthebottomof

• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Mother
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Sister
  • Mystery
  • Pedestal

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