Mother Quotes · Page 168

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

— Hillary Clinton

One small step from baby, one huge smile from motherhood.

— Linda Poindexter

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother lost her hearing at the age of five years old, from spinal meningitis.

— Paul Raci

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

— J. D. Salinger

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

— Jessica Lange

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Whether it's something happy or sad, I like to share everything with my mother.

— Karishma Tanna

I am overwhelmed for whatever I have achieved so far. I give the credit to my mother and everyone who has helped…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down…

— Diana Lopez

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified…

— Emma Goldman

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than…

— Thomas Friedman

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things…

— Isabel Allende

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

— Iimani David

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately…

— Joan Blades

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town…

— Kate Winslet

The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I dreamed that I woke up and there was a little girl, not more than three or four years old, standing outside…

— Darrell Hammond

“After I put on my coat, I turn and whisper to Camille: “Just a minute.” In the living room, I leave a…

— Regina Calcaterra

I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed…

— Don Winslow

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have…

— Annie Potts

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back…

— Selma Blair

Growing up we never had the best house on the block, the best car, or the most money, but one thing I…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Nancy, you know I’m not really good at this mothering business,” she says. “You’re a lovely child, the fault is not with…

— Nancy Friday

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.”

— Kyle Minor

My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.

— John Grant

What in Lucifer's reach is my mother doing here? -LORELAI

— Gilmore Girls

I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.

— Milton Berle

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

— Gilbert Parker

“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.”

— Jandy Nelson

It's very difficult for a mother to disown her child even if he/she is wrong.

— Shefali Shah

When I was pregnant for the first time, I could not believe how I gained so much weight.

— Sameera Reddy

When my mother was around, she would insist on celebrating my birthdays.

— Hema Malini

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

— Robin Williams

“Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone.”

— Wally Lamb

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

— Sonita Alizadeh

“MY MOTHER WAS A FISH. That's why I can swim so well,”

— Anonymous

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

— E. B. White

I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.

— Jennifer Garner