Mother Quotes

"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"Tell mother I die for my country"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you"

Jill Bennett, Actress

"Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem"

William Petersen, Actor

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary"

Anna Friel, Actress

"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature"

Harold Coffin

"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer"

Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity

"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner"

Halle Berry, Actress

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

Max Muller, Educator

"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast"

Frank McCourt, Author

"When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother"

Derek Luke, Actor

"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you"

Alex Trebek, Entertainer

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth"

Voltaire, Writer

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it"

Mark Twain, Author

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances"

Mark Twain, Author

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Necessity... the mother of invention"

Plato, Philosopher

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Silence is the mother of truth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology"

Ronald Reagan, President

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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