Mother Quotes · Page 190

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

— Susan Rice

We don't know how many kids we want, but I think we'll keep trying until we have a boy.

— Maryse Mizanin

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

— Prunella Scales

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

— Kamala Harris

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

— Anonymous

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

— Dave Eggers

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.

— Andrea Dworkin

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

— Michael Shannon

I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where…

— Sam Elliott

On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was…

— Eileen Atkins

My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had…

— Alveda King

Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a…

— Larkin Grimm

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and…

— Eva Longoria

I like the idea of raising a kid in my trailer. My mother was an actress. I grew up in theater with…

— Morena Baccarin

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

— Warren Farrell

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children…

— Azzedine Alaia

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for…

— Ian Somerhalder

“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her…

— Joseph McGinnis

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to…

— Rick Riordan

“Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“You bet against your own son?” “Just like you, the boy doesn’t pay attention. And seeing that she’s just like her mother,…

— G.A. Aiken

My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore…

— Erika Slezak

Taylor Gang or play twister with your naked grand mother

— Anonymous

“Was she sad? She was angry. Furious at the smallness of her mother's life.”

— Celeste Ng

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mother's Day is nothing but a marketing gimmick.

— Kunal Kapoor

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

— Peter Ackroyd

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

— Denzel Washington

“Art is like fruit, owing out of man—like the child out of its mother.”

— Hans Arp

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

— Kelly Clarkson

You don't have to worry as much about the oops, I'm pregnant factor when you are sinlge.

— Anonymous

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

— Soha Ali Khan

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

— 1st Baron Bramwell George Bramwell

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

— Kate Winslet

I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

— Jack LaLanne

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

— Sebastian Coe

The good thing about being pregnant is I get to be home more.

— Brie Bella