Mother Quotes · Page 223

My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.

— Iris Apfel

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

— Nikki Sixx

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

— Malcolm X

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

— Tony Goldwyn

“Oed. Must I not fear my mother’s marriage-bed?”

— Sophocles

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

— James Joyce

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

— Mario Batali

I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.

— Tom Douglas

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

— Evangeline Lilly

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations…

— Roy Blount, Jr

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months…

— Sigrid Agren

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that…

— Bruce Springsteen

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

— June Diane Raphael

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense…

— Jon McGregor

I'm passionate about my fans and my shows. But my biggest reward in the success that is my life are my husband…

— Celine Dion

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at…

— Loretta Lynn

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to…

— Mira Bartok

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,…

— Terry Pratchett

He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping…

— Herbie Brennan

Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up…

— Richelieu Dennis

I don't really like to compare my life as an actress and being my son's mother. My personal life and my professional…

— Nia Long

And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling…

— Angela Carter

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

— David Levithan

As women, we are fully expected to surrender a huge part, or all, of ourselves to motherhood.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I just can't do without my kids. They are more than anything else in the world.

— Anu Malik

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a bitch.

— Jack Nicholson

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

— Charles M. Schulz

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

— Vera Wang

My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.

— Rick Riordan

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

— Annie Lennox

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

— William Gurnall

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

— Seamus Heaney

Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her,

— John Carter Cash

“BABY KILLS She carries Mother’s Bible Mixes Valium with her beliefs”

— Nikki Sixx

Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

— Andie MacDowell

I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.

— Pauline Quirke

“A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.”

— Debasish Mridha

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.

— Bob Hawke