Mother Quotes · Page 4

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she…

— Stacey Abrams

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but…

— Ciaran Hinds

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

— Elizabeth Berg

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel…

— Alan Jackson

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

— Rita Rudner

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

— Rumi

When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle…

— Rory Block

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in…

— Marian Keyes

I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you…

— Alistair Begg

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan.…

— Sebastian Arcelus

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

— Adena Friedman

Love your mother, the most beautiful person on this earth. Our best critic, yet our strongest supporter.

— Anonymous

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

— Amy Tan

“When you're in trouble, go and see your mother.”

— Paul Torday

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape…

— Alicia Ostriker

Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age,…

— Kathryn Stockett

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

— Kerry Kennedy

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees,…

— Tupac Shakur

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

— Gulzar

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of…

— Garrett Hedlund

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do…

— Emma Donoghue

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving…

— Joan Didion

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

— Anonymous

Enjoy life to the fulliest with out embarrassing your mother.

— Neijka Carty