Mother Quotes

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

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.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

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.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.