Mother Quotes · Page 246

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

— Carol Burnett

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

— Kristen Stewart

I've always been opinionated, unfortunately, to my mother's disappointment.

— Nina Garcia

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

— Robert Bloch

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

— Shonda Rhimes

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

— Mason Cooley

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.~

— Anonymous

“My children ain’t the only thing I love. If I was allowed, I reckon I’d love myself, too.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.

— Chrissy Teigen

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that.…

— Brooke Burke

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully…

— Abraham Maslow

Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She…

— Anonymous

Being a mother is a completely different feeling and my life has changed completely. Plus I have a new found respect for…

— Kashmira Shah

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I…

— Pooja Bhatt

I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

— Nancy Pelosi

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done…

— Conrad Veidt

The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when…

— Barack Obama

Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind…

— Annie Potts

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the…

— JoAnn Ross

When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every…

— Robert Indiana

“Their mother had white hands, long tapered fingers, and when she kneaded dough, her wedding ring clinked against the bowl. She was…

— Allegra Goodman

One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse,…

— Frankie Valli

I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf…

— George R. R. Martin

I was so lucky. I grew up with an incredibly strong grandmother, mother and sister. All three, independent, fierce, clever women who…

— Tessa Virtue

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

— Alexis Stewart

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

— Erma Bombeck

“I’m not cock-blocking for kicks and giggles. The mother ship called.”

— J.R. Ward

“Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

— Groucho Marx

My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.

— Sarah Lafleur

“I didn’t think I’d end up divorced with three kids and a bucket fanny, but there you go.”

— Robert Bryndza

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

— Carrie Fisher

I'm very open with my kids and we can talk about anything.

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

“She couldn’t imagine a father hurting his child. Or a mother failing to protect her child.”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

Out of all of my jobs, raising healthy, strong children is by far the most rewarding.

— Phaedra Parks

“Homeschooling moms are what remains of the leisured classes in these hurried, frantic days.”

— Cindy Rollins

Always love and help your mother because you'll never get another

— Anonymous

“Only mothers can’t say they don’t want their children and just go away.”

— Agatha Christie

My mom had me when she was 24, so I want to be a young, cool dad.

— Colton Underwood

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

— Joseph Wood Krutch