Mother Quotes

• I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Couple
  • Loss

• Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Me
  • Dead
  • Tell

• Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  

  Ina Garten
  • World
  • She
  • Job

• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to … juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear … Mother Goose rhymes.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.

  

  Astro
  • She
  • Respect
  • Hood

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Present
  • Never

• You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

  

  Mel Tillis
  • Family
  • Play
  • Brother

• As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Up
  • She
  • Future

• The Nobodies; Cied in Mother Jones Magazine (1991) The Book of Embraces. March-April 1991. p. 71

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Book
  • March
  • April

• I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Makeup

• My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

  

  Lena Waithe
  • America
  • Mother
  • Crazy

• A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Relationship
  • Son
  • Loving

• Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Morning
  • Moving
  • Famous

• My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Sister

• I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.

  

  Joanna Cassidy
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Lion

• Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Women
  • Father

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Eye

• No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Flying

• My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Relationship

• No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • White

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Grow Up

1

...

31

32

33

34

35

...

245

previous

next