Best Mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.”

“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”

Long Ideas Mother Father Given Hurt Great Gifts Hurting Someone

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.”

Ifs Age Mother Anything In Life

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

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

Way Different Kids Mother Father Communication Direct Different Ways

Author:Richard Louv

“I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.”

Knows Trying Kids Mother Terrible Get Better Messy Being Me

Author:Kevin McKidd

“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.”

Kids Mother Father Theater Nerd Descending Orpheus

Author:Logan Marshall-Green

“I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.”

Mother Wife Wives And Mothers Happy Wife

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“I love my mother. I do love her.”

Mother I Love My Mother

Author:Mindy McCready

“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.”

Country Mother Cases Successful Highest Classic Womb Rating

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.”

Thinking Mother

Author:Samantha Morton

“I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.”

Men Different Care Mother Tables Grandmother Mentality My Grandmother Catering Different Mentality

Author:Teena Marie

“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”

Men Ends Mother Father Streets Debt Teenager Ruined Mother And Father

Author:Jo Nesbo

“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

Years Bigs Mother Father House Parent Born Cooks County Big Houses Chauffeurs Norfolk

Author:Paul Nurse

“I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.”

Want Mother Islands Italian Chef Cuisine

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Young Mother Chance Pay Four Taxes Prison Horrible Four Years Contributors

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.”

Mother Notion

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.”

People Mother Loss Struggle Empathetic

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.”

Believe Mother Found Gone Died Mother Died

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.”

Spirit Mother Fall Roles Brother My Brother Blithe

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.”

Mother

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.”

Mother Dies Loss Knowing Prepared

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.”

World Needs Mother Truth Is

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.”

Thinking Mind Eye Past Mother Gone Spring Crosses Edges Lovely Fleeting Luminous Cardinals

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.”

Knows Looks Mother Three Died Cancer Breathing Clock Christmas Day Mother Died

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.”

Mother Cards Fake Holiday Sentiments Mothers Day Hallmark

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.”

World Years Firsts Home Mother Felt Half One Word Anchors

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.”

Thinking Trying Remember Mother Found Sick Journal

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.”

Different Mother Mom Type Personality Dad My Dad My Mom Warm Typical Jewish Mother

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”

People Knows Writing Has Beens Mother Term Careers Influence Huge Grandmother My Grandmother Supportive Writing Life

Author:Tea Obreht

“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“Being a mother is magical.”

Mother Being A Mother

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.”

Jobs Mother Fun Being A Mother

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I was raised by a single mother.”

Mother Raised Single Mother

Author:Josh Peck

“The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.”

Two Seems Lasts Mother Wife Essentials Affair Jew Posts Ministers Japan April Treaties Supplies Assistants Telegraph Foreign Affairs Food Supply Fisheries Molotov

Author:Arnold Leese

“In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.”

Children Mother Special Moved Notion Sweden

Author:Camilla Lackberg

“My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.”

Feels Littles Said Kids Mother Odd

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

Ifs Want Years Said Stories Age Remember Mother Simple Rooms Fronts Tvs Mom Conversation My Mom Watching Tv

Author:Derek Luke

“Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.”

Children Mother Next Nervous Wrecks Fingernails

Author:Diana Lopez

“The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.”

Children Mother Plans Return Backgrounds Germany Crippled Fatherland

Author:Friedrich List

“My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.”

Doe School Mother My Family Worried Application Supportive Grad Grad School

Author:Ana Ortiz

“My mother's a pretty warm, open person.”

Persons Mother Warm

Author:Adepero Oduye

“A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?”

Past Mother Psychics Palms Past Life

Author:Chynna Phillips

“All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.”

Mother My Friends Let Me Grades Concerts Let Me Go

Author:Sarah Paulson

“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.”

Said Hard Wanted Young Mother Father Teacher Actresses Supportive

Author:Archie Panjabi

“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.”

Ifs Mean Enough Bigs Mother Fairs Introducing Misconception Arranged Marriage

Author:Archie Panjabi

“At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.”

People Mother Father Belief Can Do Advice Greek Recalls Distress Nurture Best Advice Keep The Faith

Author:George Papandreou

“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

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