Mother Quotes (1396)
Quotes and citations about mother
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
By : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
By : Peter Abrahams
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
By : John Acton
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
By : Mortimer Adler
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
By : Steven Adler
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
By : Ben Affleck
My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person
By : Danny Aiello
I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
By : Danny Aiello
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
By : Clay Aiken
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
By : Clay Aiken
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
By : Louisa May Alcott
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
By : Alan Alda
Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.
By : Jean Alesi
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed
By : Saul Alinsky
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
By : Gracie Allen
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
By : Richard V. Allen
I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
By : Kirstie Alley
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
By : Pedro Almodovar
After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
By : Pedro Almodovar
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
By : Alejandro Amenabar
During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
By : Namie Amuro
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
By : Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
By : Loni Anderson
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
By : Loni Anderson
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
By : Pamela Anderson
Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
By : Prince Andrew
She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.
By : Prince Andrew
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
By : Maya Angelou
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
By : Katharine Anthony
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
By : Susan B. Anthony
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer
By : David Antin
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
By : David Antin
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
By : Marie Antoinette