MOTHER QUOTES

• For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
  ~ Joseph Brodsky ~
• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• When I depart the realm of the terrestrial, for the splendour of the celestial, do not bury my remains in the valley of the kings. For robbers would move my bones in search of gold rings. I detest sharing the glory of the blue-bloods with them in death. But I would like my molded clay buried in the worm infested earth, where it would nourish both worm and field, and help moisture give life to mother earth's withered yield.
  ~ Joseph Ogbonna ~
• Wait until you get married to the queen of your heart, then you will understand why your father treats your mother the way he does.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
  ~ Jane Austen ~
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• Motherhood All love begins and ends there.
  ~ Robert Browning ~
• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
  ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
• Men are what their mothers made them.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
  ~ George Chapman ~
• God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• A mother's embrace is nature's purest sanctuary.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• Life is but pain of mother during her child's birth .
  ~ Nawaz Hussain Parray ~
• It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
  ~ Chris Brown ~
• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
  ~ Brooke Burke ~
• Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
  ~ Jamie Foxx ~
• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
  ~ Jack White ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
  ~ Calvin Trillin ~
• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
  ~ Calvin Trillin ~
• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
  ~ Roger Goodell ~
• Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
  ~ Rupert Murdoch ~
• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
  ~ Rupert Murdoch ~
• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
  ~ Jay Leno ~
• You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.
  ~ Jay Leno ~
• You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
  ~ Jay Leno ~
• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
  ~ Jay Leno ~
• There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
  ~ Billy Sunday ~
• There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
  ~ Billy Sunday ~
• That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
  ~ Lauryn Hill ~
• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
  ~ Albert Ellis ~
• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
  ~ Albert Ellis ~
• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
  ~ Albert Ellis ~
• I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
  ~ Meryl Streep ~
• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
  ~ Meryl Streep ~
• I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
  ~ Meryl Streep ~
• My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
  ~ Denzel Washington ~
• My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
  ~ Denzel Washington ~
• My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
  ~ Denzel Washington ~
• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
  ~ Freeman Dyson ~
• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
  ~ Freeman Dyson ~
• The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
  ~ Elayne Boosler ~
• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
  ~ Barbara Ehrenreich ~
• A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
  ~ Toni Morrison ~
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
  ~ Vera Wang ~
• My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
  ~ Jane Seymour ~
• It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.
  ~ Michael Haneke ~
• There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
  ~ Benjamin Netanyahu ~
• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
  ~ Karl Lagerfeld ~
• You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.
  ~ Courteney Cox ~
• Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
  ~ Louis Farrakhan ~
• Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
  ~ Louis Farrakhan ~
• Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
  ~ Louis Farrakhan ~
• My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
  ~ Kristin Scott Thomas ~
• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
  ~ Kristin Scott Thomas ~
• My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
  ~ Lenny Kravitz ~
• My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
  ~ Katherine Heigl ~
• Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.
  ~ Tom Vilsack ~
• I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
  ~ Elisabeth Kubler-ross ~
• I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
  ~ Elisabeth Kubler-ross ~
• After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
  ~ Jaron Lanier ~