Mother Quotes · Page 167

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

— Indira Gandhi

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

— Lisa Loeb

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

— Anonymous

I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”

— Mabel Hale

“The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. ”

— Esmeralda Santiago

Mother is a GOD '' . . . M : made O : of T : true H : heart E : everyday R : rises 4 u

— Melchor Lim

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family…

— Julie Bowen

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

— Vera Wang

I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.

— Mathew Knowles

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

— Patrick White

I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best…

— Kelli O'Hara

My mother drilled into me the importance of hard work. She had good talent at school but did not have the money…

— Carlos Carvalhal

...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they…

— Sonali Bendre

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was…

— Kristine Opolais

... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at…

— Hortense Odlum

As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you…

— Amira Hass

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,…

— Isabel Allende

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often…

— Tom Shales

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let…

— Abraham Lincoln

You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?” Al said in wonder. “At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet…

— Kim Harrison

I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe…

— Erma Bombeck

You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.

— Priscilla Presley

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

— Della Reese

Once a heroine is beyond a certain age, she has to graduate to mother's roles or quit.

— Waheeda Rehman

I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.

— Izabella Scorupco

My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.

— Don Rickles

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

— Brock Yates

'Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.

— Lauren Graham

“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future”

— Manal al-Sharif

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

— Matt Riddle

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

— Natalia Makarova

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

— Gregory Nunn

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

— Anthony Douglas

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

— David Johansen

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

— Danny K. Davis

Being a mother must be the most difficult task in the world.

— Koena Mitra

I want to be there for my children. You want to make sure you're alive more than anything.

— Nick Cannon