Mother Quotes · Page 219

We know that fathers find asking for help harder than mothers.

— David Lidington

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

— John Sergeant Wise

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

— Jeanine Tesori

“My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

— Ruby Wax

“(He probably was happy, too, to get away from his mother!)”

— Roberta Edwards

I got kids so whenever I can, I fly them out to the cities I'm in.

— Yo Gotti

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

— Taraji P. Henson

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going…

— Shirley Temple

Mama, thanks to you, I have seen what strength really is and learned what family really means. Thanks to you, I know…

— Anonymous

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks…

— Kathleen Sebelius

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as…

— Emilio G. Segre

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother…

— David LaChapelle

I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?'…

— Buddy Valastro

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she…

— Siobhan Fallon Hogan

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His…

— Matthew Henry

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see…

— Alice Walker

I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the…

— Deb Caletti

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat…

— Christina Stead

My mother is back to who she was years ago. Its like a new page me and her are beginning on. I…

— Drake

It's not as if people don't know my real age or anything. It's like you're watching a college drama where someone's playing…

— Hiten Tejwani

“The tear on my mother’s cheek got larger and larger. It detached from her face and became a shiny globe, widening outward…

— Fred Chappell

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them…

— Charlotte Mason

I had always wanted to write a song on my mother and also mothers generally.

— Neeti Mohan

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

— Vera Farmiga

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

— Maya Angelou

“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.”

— Karen Maezen Miller

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

— Ihara Saikaku

Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well? …My mother.

— Ann Taylor

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

— Yayoi Kusama

That's something that I talk about all the time, how I want to be a mom.

— Porsha Williams

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

— W. C. Fields

Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science.

— Melinda M Marshall

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

— Alec Baldwin

The only person I can't stand to see cry is my mother.

— Usman Ismaheel

“a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.”

— Ted Kooser

“my mother’s eyebrows communed with her hairline.”

— Emily Pohl-Weary

Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

— Mary Bell

“kept all these news clippings. That’s where I read how my mother”

— Diane Moody