Mother Quotes · Page 218

My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they're the very definition of love.

— Elizabeth Smart

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

— Nhat Hanh

Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her.

— Alexa Von Tobel

I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.

— Brad Meltzer

My mum is extremely caring and protective over me, if anything she's overly empathetic.

— Lucy Beaumont

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.

— Jeremy Taylor

What inspires me is my daughter because I want to set a good example for her, as does my wife.

— A. J. McLean

Mother sitting in a sad mood. Child - Mom, you are the 2nd most beautiful woman in this world. Mother - Who…

— Anonymous

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that…

— Charlize Theron

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit…

— Vin Diesel

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with…

— Mary Crosby

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

— Frantz Fanon

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I…

— Jimmy Carl Black

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in…

— Carol Ross Barney

On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and…

— Jane Leavy

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul.…

— Dave Winfield

I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life,…

— Patrick Stewart

The mother, the father and the child have to come into a sacred relationship. The mother must see the father and the…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave.…

— Teresa Heinz

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…

— Oscar Wilde

“The Vine had no jukebox, but a real stereo continually playing tunes of alcoholic self-pity and sentimental divorce "Nurse," I sobbed. She…

— Denis Johnson

I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them...…

— Shonda Rhimes

Starting out so young meant missing out on a lot of things that kids do, that your friends are doing, whether it…

— Dante Basco

Being a mom is one of the most difficult, challenging, and amazing jobs that a woman can have.

— Cynthia Bailey

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

— Bethenny Frankel

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

— Chinua Achebe

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

— Billy Sunday

“God-fearing and hardworking, my mother is the strongest person I know.”

— M.C. Mary Kom

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

— Anna Kournikova

“My mother should have been an attorney. She and Abe could have opened a law firm together.”

— Richelle Mead

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

— Albus Dumbledore

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

— Gertrud von Le Fort

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

— Kerry Kennedy

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.

— John Keble

Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.

— Marco Pierre White

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

— S. E. Hinton

New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.

— Eva Amurri

A mother holds her child's hand for just a short time, but holds their heart forever.

— Krystal Nahdee

Seeing what midwives do on a day-to-day basis - you really have this renewed respect for them.

— Emma Willis