Mother Quotes · Page 171

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Cry baby cry, make your mother sigh. She's old enough to know better, so cry baby cry.

— The Beatles

“My elderly mother's favorite drink is "Johnnie." She's already got a walker.”

— Dan Adams

You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

— Doug Stanhope

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

— Joe Mantegna

“No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother!”

— Nelson Jack

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

— Jeanette Winterson

“A mother’s love—" "Fuck love," Amber snarls, "she wants power.”

— Charles Stross

My father is my hero, my mother is a saint, and I want to fill those shoes and I want to be…

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and…

— Gayle King

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech…

— Luther Standing Bear

“I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel." At least the man had…

— Alan Bradley

Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too.

— Leila Slimani

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to…

— Iman Shumpert

I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing,…

— Camila Alves

“And ultimately, she’s told Drs. Rusk and Tavis, she’d rather have Hal abide in the security of the knowledge that his mother…

— David Foster Wallace

But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you…

— Darren Shan

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd…

— AJ Lee

Whether you plan to labor with an epidural or the Pitocin Fairy pins you down or you end up having an emergency…

— Faith Salie

I can always tell when my mother, an artist who grew up in Switzerland, starts to feel nostalgic for home. It is…

— Suleika Jaouad

I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has…

— Prabal Gurung

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and…

— Billy Eckstine

“My Mother just lost my book... Looking for Alaska!! I'm still looking for you!!”

— Ingrid Espinoza-Hueck

Father's Day reminds me how much I love my mother.

— Anonymous

The mother who set the standard for family and lead the way becomes a role model for society.

— Kishore Bansal

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

— Anonymous

I was brought up by a mother who was always brutally honest. She made me who I am.

— Jill Zarin

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

— Yann Martel

“That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. Erika”

— Liane Moriarty

“It is warmth and comfort and safety. A smell of mothers.”

— Linda Green

I went through about 13 rounds of IVF before I got pregnant with Salome; it was very tough.

— Alex Kingston

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

— John Sebastian

Its not always easy to push yourself, and thats why they invented mothers.

— Suman Rai

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

— Judd Apatow

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Its not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

— The Golden Girls

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

— Indira Varma

“i want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated…forever in my mother’s arms.”

— Sanober Khan