Mother Quotes

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

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

~ Nikki Haley

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

~ Patsy Cline

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.

~ Robert H. Schuller

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

~ Michael Douglas

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

~ Jenny Lewis

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

~ Carrie Fisher

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

~ Kevin Hart

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

~ Andie Macdowell

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

~ Louis C. K.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

~ Justin Timberlake

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

~ Indra Nooyi

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

~ Kevin Spacey

I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

~ Cheryl Cole

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

~ Honoré De Balzac

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

~ Felicity Kendal

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

~ Conrad Veidt

My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.

~ Kristy Mcnichol

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

~ Alice Walker

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

~ Beyoncé Knowles

My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.

~ Francois Nars

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

~ Hedy Lamarr

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

~ Paul Simon

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

~ Jay Leno

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

~ Robin Williams

Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.

~ Rita Ora

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

~ Angie Dickinson

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

~ Paula Poundstone

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

~ Ian Hislop

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

~ Patsy Kensit

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

~ Meryl Streep

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

~ Blake Lively

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

~ Simon Mcburney

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

~ Alden Ehrenreich

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

~ Henning Mankell