Best mother & kids Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

“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

“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

“The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.”

Said Kids Law Mother Guy Given Wife Love You One Day My Wife Compliment Airports In-laws Family Love Mother In Law Kids Love Wives Love

Author:Lionel Richie

“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”

War Kids Mother Father Literature Games Taught Ten Lays Ancient Bridges Rome Eleven English Literature Pedestrians Ancient Rome War Games

Author:Bernie Taupin

“I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.”

Want Kids Mother My Own Ups & Downs

Author:JoBeth Williams

“I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

People Mean Littles Kids Wanted America Used Mother Church Known Trouble Hero Used To Be Preacher Little Kid My Hero Goofy Murphy Imitating Coming To America Goofing Off

Author:Lamorne Morris

“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

People Looks Mean Kids School Mother Artist Song Greater Picks Stores Groceries Being An Artist Grocery Stores

Author:Faith Evans

“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.”

People Thinking Knows Years Happens Kids Mother Father Parent Understanding Rights Separation Whatever Happens

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

Shows Kids Earth Mother Music Streets Honest Dad Kissing Daughter My Friends Being Honest My Daughter Buzz

Author:Ace Frehley

“My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.”

People Littles Kids Together Mother Left Poor Boys Grew Dad Grew Up Foundation My Dad Cuba Little Boys Poor Family Happy Kid

Author:William Levy

“I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.”

Kids Mother Names Hell Childhood Infatuation Cuban

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.”

Littles Real Kids Mother Actors Company Theater Actresses Little Kid Cuba Default Miami Like Her

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Kids Mother Choices Easy Stuff Memories Paid Horrible Straws Anything And Everything

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."”

Giving Trying Stills Kids Mother Girl House Wonder Teach Nice Clothes Dresses Fortune Things Change Really Nice

Author:Courtney Love

“I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.”

Important Kids Mother Discipline Routine Timing Strict

Author:Karisma Kapoor

“I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.”

Thinking Important Kids Mother Strong Influence Mom Dad My Friends Crosses My Dad My Mom Boundaries

Author:Karisma Kapoor

“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.”

Children Long Stills Home Care Kids Mother Father Hours Conflict Responsible Majority Spending More Time Housework Weighing Long Hours Child Care Working Long Hours

Author:Brigid Schulte

“When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.”

Kids Mother Party Crazy Verbs

Author:Dennis Miller

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.”

Thinking Kids Mother Father Amount Dreamer

Author:Frank Gehry

“All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.”

Made Kids Mother Father Decision Proud Be Proud Mother And Father

Author:Ken Venturi

“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.”

Use Shows Happens Kids Mother House Waiting Special China Dinner Occasions Italian Museums Plastic Pope Furniture Towels Special Occasion

Author:Ray Romano

“I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.”

People Feels Looks Has Beens Whole Kids Wanted Mother Church Rooms Special Concern Whole Life Flight Priests Throwing Entertaining Ministry Feel Better Stairs Living Room Making People Happy

Author:Jim Carrey

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.”

Writing Matter Kids Mother Waiting Records Five Special Hundred Sentences Punishment Kitchen Minimum Notebook Drawers Spirals Transgression

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'”

Made Said Kids Mother Three President Written Mom Letters Yesterday Thanks President Obama Celebration Mothers Day Necklaces Macaroni

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

Said Kids Mother Fighting Let Me Aggressive Household

Author:Mike Tyson

“I can't pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It's really annoying to every boyfriend I've ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, "God, really?!" But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.”

Children I Can Eye Kids Mother Baby Annoying Her Eyes Stopping Puppy

Author:Minnie Driver

“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.”

Wells Said Kids School Mother Courses High School Okay Dollars Teenager Neighborhood

Author:Trina Robbins

“Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.”

Knows Littles Kids Mother Water Half Boys Wet Daddy Skulls Little Boys Treading Treading Water

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.”

Two Home Kids Mother Doors Arms Labor Teeth Evening Knees Milk Mail Entering Frozen Cleaning Naive Lambs Gallons Armpits

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.”

“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”

People Looks Children Stills Bigs Care Kids Mother Father Parent Love You Birth Bases Take Care Bunch Contact Hopefully Adoption Day To Day Take Care Of Me Birth Mother Open Adoption

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.”

Enough Kids Mother Issues One Thing Never Ending

Author:Britney Spears

“As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.”

Way Trying Kind War Country Problem Government Kids Mother Dies Interest Interesting Violence Deserve Raises Solve Code Execution Honorable Death Penalty

Author:Susan Sarandon

“People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"”

People Way Want Kind Kids Used Mother Audience Blood Son Red Letters Best Way Meat Shirts My Son Stains

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

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Author:Susan J. Douglas

“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.”

Writing Might Kids Mother Feet Danger Mom Dad Husband Daughter Crisis Managers Soccer Fund Conspiracy Rescue Thrillers About Family Cover Ups Sidelines Straight Up Hedge Fund Soccer Mom

Author:Andrew Gross

“When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.”

Littles Kids Together Used Mother Watches Speech Dresses Golden Get Up Apples Globes Little Kid Sparkling Trays Cider Apple Cider

Author:Lea Michele

“I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.”

Two Kids Mother Roles New York Mom Models Incredibles My Mom Role Models Single Mother

Author:Kim Raver

“My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.”

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Author:Joan Cusack

“You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.”

Thinking Persons Kids Together Mother Attention And Love Insane Abandonment Psychologist Insane Person Attention And Love

Author:Eric Idle

“My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.”

Kids Mother Courses New York Theater Uncles Aunt Nun Aunts And Uncles Irish Family

Author:Ellen Pompeo

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