Mother Quotes

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city.

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

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

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.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.