Mother Quotes

• Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Mother
  • Happens
  • Worst

• The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Name

• I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

  

  William Goldman
  • Father
  • Night
  • Terrible

• My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Mother
  • Adolescence

• What can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Mother
  • Self

• 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

• If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Wisdom

• My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Trying
  • Mother

• If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Mother
  • Name
  • Crime

• There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Father
  • Made
  • Track

• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father
  • Husband
  • Challenges

• Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mother
  • Funny
  • Humorous

• I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Logic

• I am my mother's daughter.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • Mother

• I dig being a mother.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Mother
  • Motherhood

• When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Discipline
  • Virtue
  • Anxiety

• When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.

  

  Colleen Barrett
  • Thinking
  • Leader
  • Taught

• Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Inspiring

• My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Father
  • Couple
  • Struggle

• I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Person
  • Connection
  • Performing For

• Virginia had, however, long felt that her mother was not truly religious—not truly and seriously, as she and Stephen were. No doubt she thought she was, and perhaps she was, in some queer way; but were queer ways of being religious permissible? Weren’t they as bad, really, as no ways at all?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Ways

• It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Money
  • Mother

• When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Heart
  • Jesus

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