Mother Quotes · Page 247

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

— Isabella Rossellini

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I promised my mother that I would get my degree.

— Jerome Bettis

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

— Cormac McCarthy

I own full responsibility for providing for my children.

— Nadya Suleman

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

— William Shakespeare

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

— Jackie Shroff

My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense.

— Amanda Seales

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still…

— Liv Tyler

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

— Nina Tassler

When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic…

— Hamish Bowles

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue,…

— Emmanuel Jal

“She looked worn from a long day in the office but she did not let one single complaint slip from her lips…

— Emily Curtis

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles…

— Patricia Cornwell

What Mom says are always right. I did ignore what was she saying but as the time goes by it comes right…

— OhItsVynn

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

— Jimmy Carl Black

I really try and work very closely with the designers to be as consistent as possible to their vision and for their…

— Jaime King

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she…

— Roxane Gay

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to…

— John Knowles

My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as…

— Sarah Dessen

“Flowers grow beneath her feet, but she is not dead at all. The years have not diminished the Rice Mother. I see…

— Rani Manicka

“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother…

— Leo Tolstoy

With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

— Merle Travis

I have four children, two are adopted, I forget which two.

— Bob Considine

Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.

— Angela Rayner

“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.”

— Elaine S. Dalton

“The man who told my mother that I am dead while alive is indirectly asking for her death.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

My two sons adore me. They've made me more responsible.

— Bobby Deol

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

— Jean-Louis Gassee

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

— Anthony D. Williams

I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.

— Eva Mendes

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

— James Gandolfini

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

— Henry Vaughan

“When I made my mother a DNR, I did not know it meant "do not rescue.”

— Sheri Fink

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

— Jesmyn Ward

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

— Bob Uecker

I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really…

— Keri Russell

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to…

— Matt Damon