Mother Quotes · Page 81

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

— Sebastian Coe

You don't have to worry as much about the oops, I'm pregnant factor when you are sinlge.

— Anonymous

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

— Soha Ali Khan

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

— 1st Baron Bramwell George Bramwell

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

— Kate Winslet

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

— Kelly Clarkson

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

Mother's Day is nothing but a marketing gimmick.

— Kunal Kapoor

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

— George M. Cohan

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially…

— Suzanne Fields

“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.”

— D. Morgenstern

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort…

— Dorothy Hamill

“Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.”

— Margaret Atwood

Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice…

— David Letterman

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

— Linda Lavin

By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth,…

— James Agee

My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but…

— Claire Denis

In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal…

— Pope Francis

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but…

— Alan Bennett

I would love to tell you I had the worst childhood you could ever imagine but believe it or not it was…

— Martin O'Neill

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever…

— Natalie Martinez

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area…

— George Carlin

“To eliminate her from Scripture is to deform the story—to not tell it correctly—and actually dishonors Jesus. Consider how much the common…

— Carrie Gress

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

— Denzel Washington

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

— Peter Ackroyd

“Art is like fruit, owing out of man—like the child out of its mother.”

— Hans Arp

“Was she sad? She was angry. Furious at the smallness of her mother's life.”

— Celeste Ng

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Taylor Gang or play twister with your naked grand mother

— Anonymous

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

— Michael Shannon

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

— Anonymous

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

— Dave Eggers

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.

— Andrea Dworkin

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

— Kamala Harris

We don't know how many kids we want, but I think we'll keep trying until we have a boy.

— Maryse Mizanin

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

— Prunella Scales

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

— Susan Rice

My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation.

— Allyson Felix

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

— Keeley Hawes