Mother Quotes · Page 354

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was…

— Tony Parsons

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

— Lara Flynn Boyle

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money.…

— Agnes Smedley

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

— Anastasia Soare

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't…

— Hanna Rosin

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

— Woody Allen

I gave birth to my son when I was 39, in 2011, as my contracts didn't allow me to get pregnant. I…

— Mandira Bedi

I am one of the few but very lucky people who grew up in a vegetarian household. So, I was vegetarian since…

— Alissa White-Gluz

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once…

— Clara Shih

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?…

— William Blake

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,…

— Will Durant

I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little.…

— Carmen Busquets

I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal…

— Dave Matthews

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always…

— Barbara Cartland

“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they…

— Billy Graham

No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers,…

— Sheri L. Dew

I have an odd relationship with motherhood. I've never had that relationship of this unconditional friendship, deep bond that you have with…

— Dawn O'Porter

I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to…

— Drake

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

— Barry Gibb

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

— Nate Berkus

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean]…

— Yoko Ono

I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.

— Jill Scott

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

— Vidal Sassoon

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was…

— Peter Abrahams

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

— Kary Mullis

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a…

— Tamaryn

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland

— Lorna Luft

I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore.…

— Mary Quant

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a…

— Tristan Prettyman

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

— Madonna Ciccone

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all…

— Kellan Lutz

I personally don't like family dramas, but don't mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity.

— Richa Pallod

I was not wary of playing a mother on screen but wasn't sure if I could do justice to it. Would I…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity…

— Ali Krieger

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding…

— Suzanne Collins

Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8

— Bible

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother…

— William S. Burroughs

“Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.”

— Maria V. Snyder