Mother Quotes · Page 191

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

— Ricki Lake

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

— Holliday Grainger

When I look into the eyes of my children, I know I have done something perfectly right.

— Brii Ann

“A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Children have always been near and dear to my heart.

— Tayshia Adams

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

— James MacArthur

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

— Florence Henderson

My mom literally saved my life. I wasn't supposed to make it out of the orphanage.

— Oksana Masters

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

— Mavis Staples

MOTHER is Beautiful creation, because in this selfish world she is the only one, who always wants ti see you happy..

— Ritu

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the…

— Caroline Norton

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

— James Fenton

My mother is more than a hero, more than a fearless women, more than a best friend, she's my life. I love…

— Anonymous

My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never…

— Jessica Biel

My father adored my mother - she was very beautiful - but they were not fantastically compatible.

— Maureen Lipman

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable…

— Amy Tan

From the minute you find out you're pregnant, I believe it's a workout, because you're constantly trying to monitor what you eat…

— Gemma Atkinson

She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way.…

— Maggie Smith

“Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn't hold you close, or tell you all the time that…

— Jojo Moyes

“Why should every pregnant woman be expected to read the same book? Or any book? Being pregnant isn't that complicated. What to…

— Rainbow Rowell

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I…

— Carrie Fisher

When I started years back, there was a lot of apprehension to don a mother's role. People feared that once you play…

— Priyamani

“I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

“On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.”

— Raymond Chandler

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“If only she could, like the mother of Jesus, arrive at that swollen state by magic.”

— Ian McEwan

To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate

— Raymond Blanc

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

— Jamal Khashoggi

My mother always told me, 'Don't make women cry.'

— Justin Hartley

“At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.”

— Heather James

Being a mother is the most beautiful thing happened to me. I am enjoying every bit of it.

— Sridevi

I'm not on social media. I hear things that my mother tells me though.

— Iman Vellani

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

— Amy Poehler

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

— Dervla Kirwan

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

— Bryan Brown

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

— Sean Connery

Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“Women are mothers of all human kind" ~ Alchemic Journey #quote”

— Alchemic Journey