Mother Quotes

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

My mother did not like children.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

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.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.