Mother Quotes · Page 237

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

— Moon Unit Zappa

My kids remind me every day how much I don't know.

— Jo Dee Messina

Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.

— Dervla Kirwan

Both my kids are international swimmers and national champions.

— Thalaivasal Vijay

I felt so much closer to my mother after I had babies. It bonds a mother and daughter more.

— Sharmila Tagore

In general, I like whatever my mother cooks. But I especially like her chat meals.

— Sunny Singh

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

— Adam Ant

My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

— Warwick Davis

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like…

— Chanakya

Hen I told my mother the extremes I went to in order to make a living, she just shook her head and…

— James St James

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know,…

— George Allen

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be…

— Christina Aguilera

“colorblind lumberjack.” The sad part was that her mother had a good point; she needed to dress more like a businesswoman and…

— Cleo Peitsche

When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was…

— Kim Brooks

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

— Chris Rock

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong…

— Anne Lamott

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know…

— Anonymous

Remember Mother Earth knows who these people are that are going to become the one heart. Really the better way to say…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman,…

— Queen Latifah

If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a…

— Jean Marzollo

My mother would never say anything I cooked for her was great. She was always a 'Yeah, but' person. When she tasted…

— Gino D'Acampo

I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first…

— Robert D. Hales

I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself,…

— Twinkle Khanna

I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would…

— D'Angelo

I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

— Niall Ferguson

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

— Gabrielle Roth

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I can assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her foundation's board.

— Betsy DeVos

It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.

— Angelina Jolie

“They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man’s suit, Mother in a dead man’s wallet.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

— Jim Cramer

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

— Dom DeLuise

There's no real substitute for the care of the real mother.

— Phyllis Schlafly

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

— Arlene Dickinson

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

— Robert Breault

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

— John Calvin

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

— Gene Perret

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

— Camilla Belle

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

— Mariska Hargitay