Mother Quotes · Page 429

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow…

— Steven Seagal

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

— John Kennedy Toole

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

— Tig Notaro

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in…

— Donald Barthelme

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

— Richard Louv

“Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise…

— Shannon L. Alder

My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And,…

— Temple Grandin

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself…

— Paulie Malignaggi

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so…

— George H. W. Bush

I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the…

— Carrie Underwood

The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this…

— Alex Jones

Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves…

— Stephen Covey

I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When…

— Misty Copeland

At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother…

— Jim Wallis

My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on…

— Dan Levy

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the…

— Danny Aiello

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

— Ethel Waters

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born…

— Paz de la Huerta

The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the…

— Angus Buchan

“My mother used to say, ‘Don’t throw compliments away, so long as they’re free.’” His face was very earnest. “That one wasn’t…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

— Zig Ziglar

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for…

— Natalie Massenet

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the…

— Frank McCourt

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was…

— Kirsten Dunst

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she…

— Margaret Sanger

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn't drink. Even though we were poor, we…

— Mr. T

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family…

— Norman Finkelstein

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“Unbelievable. My mother had the exact same mentality as my friends. When in doubt, be a bitch.”

— Kieran Scott

“Wind-seeker, her mother had once called her. Unable to keep still, always wandering where the wind calls you. Where shall it beckon…

— Sarah J. Maas

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

— Harold Wilson

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged…

— Catherynne M. Valente

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she…

— Archie Panjabi

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

— Barbara Hutton

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

— Hunter Tylo