Mother Quotes
Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
Kevin Plank
Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.
Ray Bradbury
My mother was my greatest fan.
Judy Blume
If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
Blake Lively
When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
Robert Wyatt
Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?
Dana Rosemary Scallon
My father and mother were both doctors, yes.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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.
William Bennett
Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
Sarah Addison Allen
I put the girl’s teeth shaped like my mother’s teeth into my own mouth and on her teeth I chewed until I heard my own teeth in my head breaking and I swallowed and I smiled.
Blake Butler
Adversity is the mother of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently in Mexico than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"
Sandra Cisneros
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
Sun Myung Moon
I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
Michael Angarano
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.
Abraham Lincoln
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
Denis Leary
