Mother Quotes
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
W. H. Auden
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
Ariel Gore
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
Aerin Lauder
I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.
Bernard Manning
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.
Lalo Schifrin
Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.
Carolyn Parkhurst
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.
Rod Stewart
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.
Natalia Vodianova
My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
Larry Fitzgerald
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Martin Lewis Perl
My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
Drew Barrymore
