Mother Quotes · Page 208

Any woman can be a mother but it takes someone special to be called Mom.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Virtually my first words were 'Can I have a baby?' I've wanted a kid since I was a kid.

— Jamie Demetriou

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

— Madelaine Petsch

One doesn't necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

— Priyamani

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

— Kangna Ranaut

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

— Cobie Smulders

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

— Courteney Cox

If I'd never had a hit record, I still would have had a wonderful life because of Gloria, and our children and…

— B. J. Thomas

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in…

— Noah Hawley

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both…

— Jane Birkin

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

At the age of 16, my father, mother and I had come to America from Poland in hopes of a better life.

— Sebastian Janikowski

“That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?”

— Kage Baker

“A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother!”

— Charles Dickens

“To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this…

— Karen Russell

“Suddenly the light came on at the back of her parents’ house, flooding the yard. “Is there somebody out there? Amy, is…

— Sarah Mayberry

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone…

— Amy Hempel

My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and…

— Jenny Zhang

I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be…

— D. B. Sweeney

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the…

— Virginia Henderson

“Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a…

— Martha Parravano

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

— C. Everett Koop

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

— Vidal Sassoon

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak!

— Anonymous

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

— Len Cariou

I've had rough first trimesters. But once you get into the second, it's fine after that.

— Megan Fox

Last memory of my mother is her being dragged away

— Jean McConville

No man is really successful until his mother-in-law admits it.

— Vikrant Parsai

My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.

— Brandon Marshall

I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.

— John Lasseter

I wanted to be a horse trainer against my mother's will.

— Bob Baffert

The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.

— Iliza Shlesinger

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

— Christina Aguilera

I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

— Bill Cosby

“A man who loves his mother too much is someone who can never love his wife enough.”

— Adam Ross

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

— Isla Fisher