Mother Quotes
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For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Bradley Denton
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My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.
Emma Stone
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My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
Morena Baccarin
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
Cathy Guisewite
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
Cecile Richards
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Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
David Johansen
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My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn’t angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual.
Elena Ferrante
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All I want is all what my mother wanted for me when she raised me - to be happy. For that, I don't need to be in a relationship. I don't need to have a certain level of respect. I just want to care very much about what I do and be kind to everyone in the process. It's important that I can feel that. That's happiness.
Hayden Christensen
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Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
Henry Louis Gates
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I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
Morgan Freeman
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The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
Paul R. Ehrlich
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My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.
Carolyn Rodgers
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
Jane Austen
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I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.
Cecily McMillan
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Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s intended activities. “Why are you fulfilling all of my mother’s dreams?” she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. “So you don’t run away like she did in search of them,” he replied, taking her hand. “Come on, join in!” he said, leaping around.
Cecelia Ahern
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I'm lucky to still have my mother who is at a very advanced age, which is pretty incredible.
Catherine Deneuve
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I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.
Terry Gross
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My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.
Jesmyn Ward
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I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Steven Cojocaru
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See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.
Neem Karoli Baba
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We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
Carolyn Maloney
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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.
Mother Teresa
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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini