Mother Quotes
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My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Mother's love is unusual and complicated, unresolved to reason.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.
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I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.
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My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.
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My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
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If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.
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I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.
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A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
