Mother Quotes · Page 266

My mother is very positive and encouraging and nurturing, as a mother should be. She's my auditioning partner. She says when it's…

— John David Washington

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

— J. M. Coetzee

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

— Guillermo del Toro

“We wrap our arms around each other and we cry. We cry mother to daughter. We cry aunt to niece. We cry…

— Colleen Hoover

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

— Frances Hardinge

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the…

— Constance Marie

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and…

— Elizabeth Berg

I believe the person who was out conquering the world, who was out fighting in the world were our fathers, so to…

— Carolyn Maloney

Let's just put the business aside and talk about family. Family's just amazing. My wife Jenny-Lynn is an incredible mother. Our son…

— J. Robert Spencer

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on…

— Anonymous

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show…

— Anonymous

For expectant mothers there's so much to think about - and so much to prepare for. In amongst those many thoughts and…

— Caroline Lucas

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

— Simon Wiesenthal

While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially…

— Miriam Margolyes

I think that any moms that leave, even for the day at work, and come home every night will tell you that…

— Haylie Duff

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped…

— Milton Berle

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

— Mike Krzyzewski

The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.

— Danielle Brooks

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the…

— Edith Wharton

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

— Jasper Fforde

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and…

— Angelina Jolie

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

— Carrie Fisher

My mother always said, if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all... And Then I signed-up for Facebook!

— Nikhil Saluja

“I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No…

— Michelle Zink

“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath.…

— Katherine Rundell

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's…

— Erma Bombeck

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she…

— R. Tripp Evans

Single parent mothers who aren't spending their time looking for a man but spending their time providing for their children are the…

— Anonymous

My Mother, my friend so dear, Throughout my life youre always near, A tender smile to guide my way, Youre the sunshine…

— Babloo

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have…

— Wynton Marsalis

All I want is to see my kids be happy and have fun. I've had a great life so I don't need…

— Rob Burrow

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

— Hilton Als

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that…

— George Michael

I do wear kind of like a homemade-type girdle after I had the babies, for six weeks, and I'm wrapped so damn…

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

Happy Mother's Day to my dear wife. Wonderful was the day you entered my life. Happy Mother's Day to my daughter's mother…

— Jim Milks

I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

— Ntozake Shange