Mother Quotes

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

~ Christopher Heyerdahl

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

~ Russel Honore

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

~ Geraldo Rivera

Mother Nature is not sweet.

~ John Shelby Spong

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

~ John Dewey

I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.

~ Graeme Base

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.

~ Gloria Reuben

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

~ Henry Cantwell Wallace

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

~ David Blaine

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

~ C. V. Raman

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

~ Noam Chomsky

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

~ Rosa Parks

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

~ Tony Dungy

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

~ Kim Cattrall

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

~ Barbra Streisand

Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she had to trust God, that she was so privileged to be the mother of the Savior, that she had to stand there as a mother and watch her son being murdered and trust that that is what he came to do.

~ Roma Downey

A child's first teacher is its mother.

~ Peng Liyuan

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

~ Chinua Achebe

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

~ Simon Van Der Meer

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

~ Audre Lorde

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

~ Steve Harvey

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

~ Roz Chast

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.

~ Clive Granger

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

~ Forest Whitaker

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

~ Mira Nair

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

~ Sloane Crosley

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

~ Paul O'grady

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

~ Elliott Abrams

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

~ John Lasseter

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

~ Ruth Rendell

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

~ Bobby Knight

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

~ Lewis Black

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

~ Jimmy Smits

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

~ Peter Dinklage

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

~ Idina Menzel

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

~ Daryl Hall

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

~ Temple Grandin