Mother Quotes · Page 211

“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.”

— Michael Cunningham

My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.

— W. Earl Brown

My mother had to label all our clothing. As the youngest boy, all my tags read Droga5.

— David Droga

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

— Rosanne Cash

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

— Audre Lorde

My mother taught in the schools in Toronto Centre.

— Annamie Paul

My mother is special to me. She understands me. She has no expectations from me.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

“What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer?”

— Gillian Flynn

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our…

— Karan Johar

My mother caught my ex-wife and sister's husband red handed, in compromising situations many times.

— Raj Kundra

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family…

— Doug Davidson

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the…

— Samantha Bond

I want to be the girl your ex will hate, the girl your mother will love, and the girl you'll want to…

— Anonymous

Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good…

— Barry Keoghan

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

— Sam Rockwell

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what…

— Diana DeGarmo

I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and…

— Arnold Palmer

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite.…

— Arlo Guthrie

“But in fact I was like Ossie, in this one regard: I was consumed by a helpless, often furious love for a…

— Karen Russell

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed…

— Stephen M. Irwin

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12…

— Rowan Atkinson

There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?'…

— Russell Hoban

When you marry the right woman for yourself, remember your kids would also need a good mother.

— Terry Mark

I've always wanted to have children and become a father, without question.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

— Nancy Pelosi

I was my mother's favorite, but my - 'cause she worried about me the most.

— Neil Bush

“Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex.”

— TaraShea Nesbit

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

— Natasha Gregson Wagner

“I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

— Connie Britton

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

— Ilhan Omar

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.

— Arlene Benedict

My kids are my priority. Everything else is just sugar on top!

— Tess Daly

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

— Mia Sara

“I suggest that it never helps anyone to tell a mother that her baby is ugly.”

— William H. Patterson Jr

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

— Amy Tan