Mother Quotes · Page 244

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

— Mary Gordon

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

— Ellen Pompeo

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

— Mr. T

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

— Leverett Saltonstall

I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.

— Jackie Gayle

“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake”

— Chip Walter

“I knew this in my mother heart-of-hearts: This child was meant to come.”

— Lori Stott

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

— Henry Louis Gates

We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a…

— Anne C Weisberg

Do you believe in miracles? I do, because having you in my life certainly seems like a miracle every single day. I…

— Anonymous

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is…

— Emilia Clarke

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

— John Stevens Cabot Abbott

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

— Azran Osman Rani

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“Never trust a decision you don’t want your mother to know about. How’s that for a brilliant insight?”

— Abby Johnson

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who…

— Stephanie Seymour

“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger.…

— Jodi Picoult

At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where…

— Kehinde Wiley

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church…

— Jane Pauley

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I am made up of light and shadows. I am both mother & inner child. Healing and evolving. I run with the…

— Ríonach

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another…

— Rosanne Cash

“Her mother rose and slammed her hand against the table. The loud thump made her father flinch. “If you wouldn’t do it…

— Vivienne Savage

I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.

— Nelsan Ellis

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

— Anonymous

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

— Billy Joel

“If there is one word in the universe capable of softening hearts, it is this: Mommy.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Mothers Instinct...all species...timeless primal wisdom.

— Anonymous

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

— Anna Freud

“My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky.”

— Jeanette Winterson

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

— Michael Gurian

I want to buy my mother a huge house in New Orleans so she can open up a bed and breakfast.

— Luke James

God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.

— Coy Bowles

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

— Hermann Hesse

My mother just liked the way the name Nipsey sounded.

— Nipsey Russell

“I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.”

— Jodi Picoult

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

— Geoffrey Zakarian

In just a few minutes, my son will have completed his first trip around the sun.

— David Letterman

My mother raised me as a vegetarian, but when I turned 18, I decided to expand my palate.

— Hannah Bronfman