Mother Quotes

• Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Reclaim

• I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • School
  • Daughter
  • Parent

• The mother tongue is propaganda.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Mother

• As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural background in a Third World country at a time when women were told what their place was and whose mothers enjoyed even less.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • World
  • Country
  • Lawyer

• My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Easy
  • Boys
  • Kitchen

• Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Friends
  • Sadness
  • Busy

• But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

  

  Nancy Paine Stoll
  • Mother
  • Street
  • Corner

• My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Mother

• While working hard for my career, I looked after my family and have been there for my mother and in-laws when they needed me around. They reciprocated in kind with their unconditional love and support for my career.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Family
  • Career
  • Support

• My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Children
  • Job
  • Mother

• Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Important
  • Desire
  • Son

• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Boys

• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • God
  • Mother
  • Everywhere

• Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child . . . With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mean

• My mother taught me early on not to be afraid to put myself out there - especially as a woman.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Mother

• Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Enough
  • Born
  • Lucky

• 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
  • Dangerous
  • Issues
  • Tongue

• No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • World
  • Mother
  • Place

• My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • School
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Die

• My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Taught

1

...

233

234

235

236

237

...

245

previous

next