Mother Quotes · Page 163

I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

— Jodi Picoult

“My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.”

— Josh Lanyon

When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see my own inimitable child.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

— Phyllis Diller

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

— Daniel Woodrell

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

— Stanley Hauerwas

I tell the children I want everyone to love the life that they're in, to be who they are... and make it…

— Margaret Trudeau

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children…

— Mother Teresa

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money…

— Mark Twain

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are…

— Theodore Hook

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor…

— Marta Kristen

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to…

— Saint John Chrysostom

“Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the…

— Alexander Maksik

“Go, now, and tell those who wait for you that I have spoken.  Do not lose courage.  The Mother will be with…

— Joan Dahr Lambert

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of…

— Alice Walker

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand…

— Pat Conroy

I was born and brought up in South Mumbai. My father, Jagdeep, is a businessman and a Sindhi. My mother is half…

— Kiara Advani

He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you…

— Rick Riordan

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath…

— Ayelet Waldman

I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good…

— Veronica Roth

“If bitching were karate, my mother would be a black belt.”

— Lisa Burstein

My wife is an amazing mother - like, top five of all time.

— Adam Pally

I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls.

— Bernie Sanders

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister,

— Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

— Alanis Morissette

The only way to rebel against my mother was to be totally normal.

— Daisy Lowe

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

— Lydia Sigourney

I would just like to have children. Lots of children.

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I love babies; there was a need in me for one more.

— Denise Lewis

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

— Carla Gugino

It's important not to forget today that mothers can also be annoying.

— Jimmy Kimmel

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

— Marlene Dietrich

My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.

— Calvin Johnson

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

— Saint Augustine

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

— Elizabeth Vargas