Mother Quotes · Page 235

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

— James Whistler

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

— Eoin Colfer

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

— Rita Rudner

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

— Doug Stanhope

My children are everything to me. And the three of them are driving me crazy.

— Aroldis Chapman

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

— Harold Brodkey

“Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.”

— Mary Ellen Edmunds

Now that I got a son, it encourages me to work even harder.

— Paul Wall

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

— Danielle Steel

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the…

— Paula Rego

If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or…

— Samuel Johnson

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed…

— O'Shea Jackson, Jr

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

— William J. Clinton

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

— Elizabeth Scott

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother…

— Stephen Fry

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a…

— Derek Walcott

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From…

— Katharine Graham

I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop…

— Alice Sebold

Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and…

— Gaston Leroux

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but…

— Patti Smith

“Mothers and daughters share a special bond." "I never knew how special until it wasn't there anymore. I'm twenty-seven, and when something…

— Barbara Freethy

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when…

— Diane Setterfield

They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should…

— Anonymous

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

— Sonali Bendre

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

— Melinda Gates

A mother's heart is like is like a rose always open..

— Ritu Ghatourey

“It's a mother's prerogative to lie about her children.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Apparently all Puerto Rican moms were the same, even if they weren’t your mom.”

— Daniel José Older

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

— Emily Dickinson

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

— Olive Schreiner

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

— Prince Harry

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

— Jessica Simpson

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

— Marcia Cross

Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.”

— Tamara L. Chilver

For the record, I think it should be illegal for a boy to have to fold his mother's underwear.

— Jeff Kinney

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.

— Donald Trump

“I know my fickle heart still beats because of my mother's heartbeat.”

— Ayokunle Falomo