Mother Quotes · Page 414

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.

— Luke James

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.

— Vinessa Shaw

I'm passionate about my fans and my shows. But my biggest reward in the success that is my life are my husband…

— Celine Dion

I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

— Shaun King

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense…

— Jon McGregor

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

— June Diane Raphael

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

— Melanie Klein

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

— Judith Viorst

Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only…

— Sri Chinmoy

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a…

— Mackenzie Phillips

I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color,…

— Kerry Washington

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to…

— Miguel de Cervantes

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of…

— Sara Sheridan

Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,…

— Roger Fouts

My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts…

— Doug Flutie

Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that…

— Adrienne Rich

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

— JoBeth Williams

I want to be successful in everything I do, to show my mother that she can be proud of the son she…

— Joao Cancelo

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o'…

— Rudyard Kipling

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

— Ronald Reagan

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

— Maureen Forrester

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride.…

— Steven Spielberg

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was…

— Michael Trevino

We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.

— Mariska Hargitay

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

— Fran Kirby

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Oh, listen, honey, I'm never gonna be photographed in a bikini again. That's all over. But I love being pregnant.

— Patti D'Arbanville

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write…

— R. Kelly

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and…

— Keeley Hawes

“MOTHER: (looking at her daughter who will hang in the morning) My dear... such a thin pretty neck... (crying) It will snap…

— Leon Kaye

My father and mother brought me to this country to escape communism and to provide me with the security, opportunity and pride…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

— Evangeline Lilly

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations…

— Roy Blount, Jr

It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little…

— Orlando Bloom

One question we'll ask is, 'Who are you grateful for,' and a surprising number of people can't name anyone beyond their mother.

— Charles Best

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months…

— Sigrid Agren

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you…

— Isabel Allende