M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!”
“Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.”
“Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Mother, I want to see him fly!”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.”
“Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and social order, but don't all the other animals have them too, granted the difference of degree? Perhaps the animals even have religions. Man boasts of being the lord of all creation, but it would seem as if essentially he does not differ in the least from other animals. But, Mother, there was one way I thought of. Perhaps you won't understand. It's a faculty absolutely unique to man - having secrets. Can you see what I mean?”
“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”
“Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.”
Source: War Is Kind
“Mother, you had me, but I never had you.”
“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?”
Source: It's in his kiss
“Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos”
“Mother: It's broccoli, dear. ---
Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.”
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
“MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Motherfucker, you haven’t said a word in days and now you choose to be chatty? I’m pissed at you!”
I frown down at her. I know from the one Leezh that “fucker” means something about mating, and in an unpleasant way. But why would my mother be brought in? “My mother is long dead. I do not see why—”
Source: Barbarian's Rescue
“Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.”
Source: Assholes Finish First
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
“Motherfucking Joe starts yell-singing along with Def Leppard:
-demolition man, can i be your man?
Oh.My.God. Music dies, Joe proclaims "Show Thyself, mighty stallion!" Laughing i call out "Shut the fuck up!”
Source: Dark Wild Night
“Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.”
“Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.”
“Motherhood
A mother is born when she wants to have a baby & not when she gives birth to one. That's just biology.”
Source: IMPERFECT LIVES: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
“Motherhood, as our nation, has always know it, was being practiced in a bold new way, preempted by the priority of the regular paycheck.”
Source: Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America
“Motherhood by definition means a journey into the depths of one’s possibility.”
Source: Cinderella In Focus: "Finding hope when you're feeling a sense of hopelessness!"
“Motherhood can be seen as a political act. (...) when adressed, disconnections can become opportunities (...) Even when sons seem to be disinterested (...), a mother's efforts are extremely important. This is how we continue to build relationship with sons.”
“Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.”
“Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.”
“Motherhood changes everything.”
“Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.”
“Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.”
Source: The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
“Motherhood doesn't have a nationality”
Source: One Hour of Magic
“Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life — but, partaking of life’s learning.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
“Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.”
“Motherhood had been metamorphosing Marie Antoinette into a more grounded and responsible woman. Her pregnancies had necessitated several months' absence from her usual round of gay amusements and she discovered that it was more fun to spend time with her children than it had been to play faro deep into the wee hours of the morning.
But her reputation as a frivolous, extravagant ninny and the marital issues in the royal bed had already demonized her in the eyes of the people at all levels of society.”
Source: Notorious Royal Marriages
“Motherhood had taught her to appreciate her children’s mumbled chatter from the other side of their bedroom door — but to fear the silence; bad things happen in dead air.”
Source: Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
“Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.”
“Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.”
“Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.”
“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”
“Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.”
“Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.”
“Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.”
“Motherhood has taught me that love, is the best gift you can ever give to your children.”
“Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.”
“Motherhood, however, took her by surprise. She found herself so in love with her children that she felt a need to change and restructure her life to afford time with her two bundles of joy. It led to her next phase of entrepreneurship, starting a string of baby-and-mother-related businesses. CRIB is a platform for mothers and women to network, and Trehaus provides the space for working mothers to have a career and yet be there for the baby’s first moments.”
“Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.”
Source: Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women
“Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.”
“Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this mystery of life, and 'understands' with unique intuition what is happening inside her. In the light of the 'beginning', the mother accepts and loves as a person the child she is carrying in her womb. This unique contact with the new human being developing within her gives rise to an attitude towards human beings - not only towards her own child, but every human being - which profoundly marks the woman's personality.”
“Motherhood is 10% hugs and 90% stepping on LEGO in the dark.”
— Diapers, Drama & a Drop of Hope”