Mother Quotes · Page 163

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

— S. E. Hinton

May the holiday spirit be with you while you scream at your mother this Christmas

— Anonymous

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

— Markie Post

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

— Anonymous

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

— Vikram Seth

My mother made wonderful cheesecake. She loved cheesecake. She ate it every day of her life.

— John Carter Cash

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

— Travis Barker

I'm blessed with four great children and eight grandchildren.

— Robert Kraft

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the…

— John L. Lewis

Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.

— Camille

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others;…

— Anonymous

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing…

— Prince Harry

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

— James Rollins

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am…

— Jane Austen

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with…

— Joan Crawford

Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else…

— Nick Gordon

Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles…

— Louise Erdrich

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right…

— Maya Angelou

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She…

— Kate Morton

Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Mother knocked once on my door and walked in my room to see me on my bed with the book tight in…

— B.C. Doyle

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the…

— Mitch Albom

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her…

— John Updike

I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

— Busy Philipps

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

— DMX

“There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.”

— Suraj Dahiya

Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?

— Ally Carter

My mother was a makeup artist for Estee Lauder and she taught me.

— Erika Jayne

Happy Mothers Day To All Mothers Without You A Family Will Never Be Stable...

— Aeezy

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

— Melanie Griffith

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

— John Milton

Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.

— Sara Rue

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

— Maureen Forrester

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Good southern boys always have this connection with their mom.

— Del Shores

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

— Carmen Carrera

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

— Martha Wainwright