I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God.
~ Richard Mourdock
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
~ Helen Andelin
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
~ Ben Lindsey
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
~ Gabby Douglas
I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.
~ Robert Battle
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.
~ Dustin Clare
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
~ Liz Murray
My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.
~ Roselyn Sanchez
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
~ Liza Minnelli
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
~ Clay Aiken
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
~ Wallace Stevens
Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.
~ Sylvia Plath
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.
~ Marco Rubio
My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.
~ Mike Colter
My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.
Night is the mother of counsels.
~ George Herbert
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
~ Diane Keaton
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
~ Amandla Stenberg
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
~ Robert Frost
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
~ Margaret Heffernan
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
~ Carol Burnett
My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
~ Jason Bateman
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'
~ Judy Gold
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
~ Lorna Luft
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
~ Patricia Highsmith
I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.
~ Colman Domingo
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
~ Jason Kilar
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~ Adrienne Rich
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
~ Uzo Aduba
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
~ Rain
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
~ Ginni Rometty
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
We are born of love, Love is our mother.
~ Rumi
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
~ Erich Fromm
I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
~ Isabel Allende
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.
~ Nhat Hanh
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
~ George Will
That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'
~ Stephen Colbert
