Mother Quotes

• All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.

  

  Dario Argento
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

  

  Cheryl Strayed
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

  

  Deepa Kumar
  • Girls
  • Nightmare
  • Sexual

• Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Business
  • Power

• My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

  

  Georgie Henley
  • Mother
  • Need
  • Treats

• When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

  

  David Antin
  • She
  • Mother
  • Husband

• While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

  

  Jessica Mauboy
  • Mother
  • Father

• No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

  

  Desmond Morris
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Trust

• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Time
  • She
  • Mom

• Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Time
  • Character
  • Daughter

• My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, Okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Business
  • House
  • Focus

• I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

  

  Beverly Lewis
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

  

  Marta Kristen
  • Live
  • Father
  • Teacher

• My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Long
  • She
  • Kids

• Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Age
  • Sun
  • Numbers

• I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Same

• I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Lit

• When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Mother
  • Style
  • Violence

• When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • World
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Mother

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