Mother Quotes

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

Aja Naomi King
- Up
- Family
- Father
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

Maira Kalman
- Mother
- Name
- Lunch

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Henry Ward Beecher
- Heart
- Babe
- Bosom
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
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.

Maria Shriver
- Time
- Writing
- She
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Believe
- Family
- School
My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

Adam Mansbach
- She
- True
- Me
I want to have kids. But I want to have kids without a wife. Then again, I also want my kids to have a mother.

Salman Khan
- Kids
- Wife
- I Want