Mother Quotes

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

Erica Jong
- Thinking
- Reading
- Baby
All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

Stephen Fry
- Mother
- Lord
- Dear

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

Boyd K. Packer
- Mother
- Things
- Prayers
My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Carrie Fisher
- Mother
- Admire
At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

Harry Connick, Jr.
- Dad
- Drug
- Judging
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

Wentworth Miller
- Mother
- Father
- Community
But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.

Sarah Dessen
As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

Seneca the Younger
- Soul
- Body
- Hours