Mother Quotes

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

~ Carly Fiorina

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

~ Coretta Scott King

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

~ Misty Copeland

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

~ Jayne Meadows

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

~ Justin Timberlake

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.

~ Thomas Edward Brown

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

~ John Perez

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

~ O. J. Simpson

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

~ Cheryl Strayed

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

~ Dick Gregory

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

~ Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

~ Chief Joseph

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

~ Marc Morial

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

~ Bernadette Devlin

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

~ Mark Davis

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

~ Deborah Tannen

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

~ Tyra Banks

I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'

~ Margaret Stohl

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

~ Anita Baker

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

~ Taj Mahal

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

~ Mary Lou Williams

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

~ Yancy Butler

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

~ Jimmy Carl Black

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

~ Louise Erdrich

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

~ Howard Schultz

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

~ James Joyce

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

~ Olga Kurylenko

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

~ Wilbur Smith

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.

~ Seth Meyers

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

~ Larry Elder

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

~ Madhuri Dixit

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

~ Noam Chomsky

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

~ Tommy Hilfiger

The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.

~ Maria Shriver

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

~ Peter Jurasik

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

~ Andy Kaufman

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

~ Gabrielle Anwar

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

~ Guilherme Leal

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

~ Chanakya