Mother Quotes · Page 370

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

— Rufus Wainwright

Maybe it's becoming a mum and beginning a family. I feel like a different kind of confidence is starting to come.

— Asher Keddie

“When I got older, I still thought I could write life. I didn't understand, as my mother had just realized that evening,…

— Shawna Yang Ryan

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be…

— Jewel

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have…

— Wynton Marsalis

My Mother, my friend so dear, Throughout my life youre always near, A tender smile to guide my way, Youre the sunshine…

— Babloo

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she…

— R. Tripp Evans

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's…

— Erma Bombeck

I always found it ironic when a Saudi official bashes Islamists, given that Saudi Arabia is the mother of all political Islam…

— Jamal Khashoggi

There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father…

— George Carlin

I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“Kim sat up. “You all sound like you don’t take this seriously, like you don’t want me to get Brian free. Brian’s…

— Jennifer Ashley

I want very much to have a child, now that I have a little security. But I must first find the right…

— Anna Karina

Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St.…

— Alphonsus Liguori

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here.…

— Glenn Ligon

“Gideon went still. All his pleasure at having her there abruptly vanished. His mother? Silas had told her about his mother? That…

— Sabrina Jeffries

Single parent mothers who aren't spending their time looking for a man but spending their time providing for their children are the…

— Anonymous

“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath.…

— Katherine Rundell

“I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No…

— Michelle Zink

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

— Carrie Fisher

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and…

— Angelina Jolie

My mother always said, if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all... And Then I signed-up for Facebook!

— Nikhil Saluja

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the…

— Edith Wharton

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

— Jasper Fforde

The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.

— Danielle Brooks

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

— Mike Krzyzewski

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped…

— Milton Berle

“My mother said Aunt Pauline meant kindly but had standars, which were all very well for those that could afford them.”

— Margaret Atwood

From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of…

— Jennie Finch

I do think about how different my life might have been had my mother not died so young, but I try not…

— John Torode

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

— Diana DeGarmo

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I…

— Donatella Versace

“...but I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her…

— Karen Russell

“my mother is a good mathematician she was able to divide 3 eggs into 8 mouths equally every day”

— Ymatruz

I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.

— Whitney Houston

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

— Jamie Foxx

I do wear kind of like a homemade-type girdle after I had the babies, for six weeks, and I'm wrapped so damn…

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

Happy Mother's Day to my dear wife. Wonderful was the day you entered my life. Happy Mother's Day to my daughter's mother…

— Jim Milks

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that…

— George Michael

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

— Hilton Als