Mother Quotes

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Mother
- Star
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Jamie Lee Curtis
- Mother
- Context
- Photos

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

Kate Middleton
- Thinking
- Mother
- Yourself
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

Patrick White
- Mother
- Father
- Marriage
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

Mark Dacascos
- Father
- Chinese
- Irish
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
My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

Emilia Clarke
- Important
- Mother
- Makeup
One day as a child, Brian was complaining to his mother about all the things he had to do: his homework, his chores.… “Technically, you don’t have to do anything,” his mother replied. “You don’t have to do what your teachers tell you. You don’t have to do what I tell you. You don’t even have to obey the law. There are consequences to everything, and you get to decide whether you want to face those consequences.” Brian’s kid-mind was blown. It was a powerful message, an awakening of a sense of agency, responsibility, moral judgment. It was something else, too: a powerful computational technique called Lagrangian Relaxation.

Brian Christian