Mother Quotes
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
 Raney Aronson-Rath
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Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, 'threesome.' Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.
 Alison Bechdel
					 
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Patience is the mother of will.
 G. I. Gurdjieff
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
 Maj Sjowall
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Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
 Kevin Brady
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
 Karl Kraus
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
 Oprah Winfrey
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
 Sabine Baring-Gould
					 
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
 Ice T
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Long as you been living, you ain't NEVER heard of a mother-fucker overdosin' on marijuana. You might-a thought that nigga was dead. He ain't dead. He gonna wake up in 30 minutes hungry enough to eat up everything in your house. That's the side effects: hungry, happy, sleepy.' That's it.
 Katt Williams
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Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
 Jennifer Love Hewitt
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
 Maggie Gallagher
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
 Zora Neale Hurston
					 
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
 Hansika Motwani
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
 Katha Pollitt
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I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.
 Alicia Keys
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
 Sally Field
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
 Christine Lagarde
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
 Bill Murray
					 
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A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.
 Warren Farrell
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My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
 Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
 Alan King
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Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty. So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.
 Nelly