Mother Quotes · Page 184

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

— Edwin Arnold

“While looking one's best was important to my mother, looking natural took precedence.”

— Betty Jamie Chung

I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'

— Lee Radziwill

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

— Pink

“I’m not.’ How can I tell my mother I miss the man who held me captive?”

— Maggie James

“Fourteen Kids, Two Dads, One Mom, Two Nannies, Two Tutors—and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.”

— Heather Demetrios

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

— Loretta Lynn

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

— R. C. Sproul

“People tend to treat a miscarriage like a heavy period but it’s a death. You lost your baby. You have to take…

— Robyn Carr

“We now play a permanent game of I-am-crazier-and-scarier-than-you. And in that game, my mother is our secret weapon.”

— Susan Ee

There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No…

— Tina Fey

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

— Laura Dern

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

— Madeline Kahn

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your…

— Lacey Chabert

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like…

— Alicia Machado

Yves Saint Laurent has a special place in my heart because he was my mother's favorite designer.

— Linda Johnson Rice

“She had his dark hair, his lashes, and from the glimpse he had, she bore his eyes, as well. But the shape…

— Charlotte Featherstone

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really…

— Sela Ward

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this…

— Beyonce Knowles

“My father was quiet ' she told him. 'My mother was not. They were polar opposites but you'd think they were a…

— Amalie Howard

Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you,…

— Paullina Simons

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught…

— Elizabeth Debold

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and…

— Prince Harry

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had…

— Ayn Rand

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

— James Russell Lowell

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

— Franz Grillparzer

My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.

— Spencer Matthews

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

— Sheri L. Dew

My mother never liked that I worked undercover. She always worried.

— Ron Stallworth

All the women close to me - my mother, sister, wife and friends - are strong and independent.

— Gautham Menon

My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.

— Statik Selektah

Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.

— Blackbeard

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

— Anonymous

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

— Alison McGhee

I know every child thinks of their mother as superwoman; I certainly did.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds.

— Joan Rivers

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

— Tim Howard

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

— John Lennon

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

— Cheryl Strayed

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

— Henrik Ibsen