Quotes on Mother

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Author: Peter Abrahams

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Author: John Acton

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Author: Abigail Adams

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

Author: Ben Affleck

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

Author: Danny Aiello

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Author: Danny Aiello

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

Author: Clay Aiken

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Author: Alan Alda

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Author: Gracie Allen

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Author: Alejandro Amenabar

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

Author: Namie Amuro

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

Author: Loni Anderson

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

Author: Pamela Anderson

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.

Author: Prince Andrew

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

Author: Prince Andrew

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Author: Maya Angelou

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

Author: David Antin

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

Author: David Antin

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Author: Marie Antoinette

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Author: Marie Antoinette

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Author: Diane Arbus

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Author: Joan Armatrading

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

Author: John Ashcroft

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Author: Shawn Ashmore

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Author: Leon Askin

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Author: Margaret Atwood

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

Author: John Audubon

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Author: Dan Aykroyd

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Author: Walter Bagehot

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Author: Honore Balzac

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

Author: Dennis Banks

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

Author: Dennis Banks

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

Author: Christine Baranski

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Author: Haley Barbour

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

Author: Ellen Barkin

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Author: Roseanne Barr

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

Author: Sydney Barrows

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

Author: John Barrymore

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

Author: Martin Bashir

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

Author: Kim Basinger

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

Author: Alison Bechdel

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Author: Alison Bechdel

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

Author: Kate Beckinsale

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Author: Henry Beecher

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Author: Henry Beecher

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

Author: Henry Beecher

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Author: Joachim Bellay

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Author: Roberto Benigni

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

Author: Roberto Benigni

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Author: Arnold Bennett

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Author: Tom Berenger

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

Author: Michael Bergin

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

Author: Halle Berry

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

Author: Josh Billings

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

Author: Juliette Binoche

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

Author: Jane Birkin

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Author: Jane Birkin

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Author: Jim Bishop

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Author: Jimmy Black

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Author: Ruben Blades

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

Author: Linda Blair

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Author: Mary Blakely

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

Author: Rachel Blanchard

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Author: Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Author: Erma Bombeck

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Author: Erma Bombeck

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Author: Erma Bombeck

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

Author: Emma Bonino

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Author: Emma Bonino

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

Author: John Booth

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

Author: Lizzie Borden

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Author: Victor Borge

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

Author: Jack Bowman

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

Author: Lara Boyle

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.

Author: Lorraine Bracco

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Author: Ed Bradley

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

Author: Ed Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Author: F. Bradley

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

Author: Georg Brandes

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Author: Wernher Braun

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

Author: Pierce Brosnan

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Author: Chris Brown

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

Author: James Brown

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

Author: Pat Brown

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

Author: Thomas Brown

After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city.

Author: Jean Brunhoff

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Author: Jean Bruyere

My mother insisted that her children read.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Author: Sitting Bull

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

Author: Carol Burnett

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Author: Carol Burnett

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Author: George Bush

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

Author: Sophia Bush

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Author: Yancy Butler

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Author: Robert Byrne

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

Author: James Cagney

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Author: John Calvin

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Author: James Cameron

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Author: Mariah Carey

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Author: Margaret Carlson

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

Author: Hoagy Carmichael

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Author: Marcel Carne

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Author: Karen Carpenter

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

Author: Jim Carrey

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Author: Jim Carrey

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

Author: Robert Casey

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Author: Ana Castillo

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

Author: Jung Chang

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

Author: Jung Chang

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Author: George Chapman

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

Author: Joan Chen

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Author: Dick Cheney

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

Author: Dominic Chianese

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.

Author: Agatha Christie

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

Author: Julie Christie

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Author: Diane Cilento

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

Author: George Clark

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Author: Beverly Cleary

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Author: Beverly Cleary

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Author: Beverly Cleary

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

Author: Patsy Cline

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Author: Jim Clyburn

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Author: George Cohan

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Author: Edward Coke

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Author: Claudette Colbert

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.

Author: Dean Cole

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

Author: Cy Coleman

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

Author: Judy Collins

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

Author: Jessi Colter

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.

Author: Holly Combs

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

Author: Dane Cook

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

Author: Mason Cooley

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Author: Mason Cooley