Mother Quotes

• There is no religionin our industry. My dad is a Muslim, my mother is a Hindu and i call myself insaan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Dad
  • Religion
  • Industry

• People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Remember

• Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • World
  • Important
  • Experience

• I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Art
  • History
  • Appreciation

• Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Mother
  • Listening

• You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Food

• I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

  

  Marsha Norman
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Night

• What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh. For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard - The treble of heaven's harmony. These things he plants who plants a tree.

  

  H. C. Bunner
  • Home
  • Happy
  • High

• You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Mother
  • Soul

• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Writing
  • Memory
  • Greek

• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Mother
  • Opinion

• My mother [actress Tanuja] has taught me that. It's 100 percent home or 100 percent work - I give complete attention to both. That's because I understand that work is not my life, and my life is not just work.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Good
  • Mother

• A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.

  

  Masi Oka
  • She
  • Education
  • Single

• I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • People
  • She
  • Path

• There ain't a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • Mother
  • Father

• I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art
  • Age

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