Mother Quotes

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

~ Pat Conroy

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

~ Andre Dubus Iii

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

~ David Rockefeller

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

~ Rush Limbaugh

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

~ Meg Greenfield

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

~ Marlo Thomas

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

~ Mortimer Adler

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

~ La India

My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'

~ Allison Tolman

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

~ Alice Munro

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

~ Stella Mccartney

When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.

~ Akkineni Nagarjuna

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

~ Shirley Temple

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

~ Anna Quindlen

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

~ Marlo Thomas

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

~ Marie Osmond

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

~ Marissa Jaret Winokur

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

~ Alison Gopnik

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.

~ Wernher Von Braun

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

~ Freeman Dyson

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

~ Dan Millman

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

~ Michael Jackson

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

~ Jessica Lange

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

~ Lauryn Hill

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

~ Pablo Picasso

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

~ Chris Brown

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

~ Charlize Theron

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

~ Roma Downey

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

~ Ambrose Bierce

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

~ Denzel Washington

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.

~ Erma Bombeck

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

~ Ann Oakley

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

~ Emma Goldman

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

~ Alice Walker

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

~ Annette Funicello

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

~ Dick Gregory

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

~ Erma Bombeck

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

~ Rudyard Kipling