Mothers Quotes (2588 Quotes)

This little girl is as strong and capable and bright as she can be because of her mother. It makes us hopeful for the futurethat she will in the long run do well.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

I'm so happy. Mother says She's my life. I Love you.

The call actually came in as a mental subject call as officers were responding. The mother had called, concerned for her son's welfare. We're familiar with the house as we've responded as recently as last week under similar conditions.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

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

I can't believe your love is true;
"I'll never own you really kind
"Unless some certain means you find
"For us to meet without your mother.

Mothers are generally reluctant to come. When a mother turns up, she is often a single mother who wants to get evidence to find out the biological father of the child so she can demand compensation.

Grandpa was such a phenomenal person when I think about it. When he was 9, he served a family for six months so that his family could have a cow, and they were good to him. On Saturdays, his mother would walk to see him.... It didn't kill their spirit. They weren't bitter.

It's not surprising. Through her mother's whole illness, Bernice is the one that's been looking after her mother.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

It is my conviction, and in this I think I concur with both James and Whitehead, that we participate in this Creative Passage as bodily event at a depth and fullness not manageable at the cognitive level.... In all of life there are depths of awareness accompanying the bodily event of living and experience that yield conditions of knowing which language may not convey, or, for that matter, cannot convey. Whitehead expressed this point in those memorable words, 'Mothers can ponder many things in their hearts which their lips cannot express.' Cf. Luke 251. Meland continues this passage by speaking of ways in which men, children, and adolescents, also, ponder experiences which they cannot express verbally.

We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers,

It's a tribute to the young lady who told her mother and the mother who told the principal. We followed all the procedures.

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.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

As her sons have seen her the mother in patriarchy controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose to bear and nourish the son.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

I want my bedroom back. I want the diapers and toys removed immediately. I love my wife. She's a great mom, a great wife. We just disagree on this issue.

We wanted to make sure that these moms would not kill them. So we pulled them. We found hand-rearing these cubs would help. They have been socialized to people.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

I am well aware that I am the umblest person going.... My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a umble abode. Uriah Heep.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Having to bottle up my revenge feelings as a brother is not going to be an easy thing to do. I'm also worried about my mother.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

This was an accident. Everyone has to live with it and accept it and not point fingers. If this is negligence on her part, then 80 percent of mothers and fathers in Richmond better take notice.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

Supporters such as McCaffrey want Sheehan to know she is not alone. It is very important for me to be here to show support for Cindy and what she's doing, ... We have to make a big echo across country and have all the mothers stand up and keep up with this effort.

Every two or three hours she wakes up crying and wants to eat. I've got one night's rest. It was tough to leave, but my mom is there and her mom is there. My wife was teary-eyed when I left, knowing I was going to be gone.

I cannot express how I feel about the loss of our son. He can't watch his boys grow up because of what these vicious, selfish punks did. He no longer can say, 'I love you Mom.'

I hope you know how much I loved your mother.

When the mother has died, all the uterine brothers and the uterine sisters shall equally divide the mother s estate.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother,

(Hirsch) probably should have gotten some kind of an award for match-making. My dad always said marrying my mother was the best decision he ever made.

I think grandmothers are more open, even more than mothers sometimes, to the goodness in children. We aren't always trying to push the children to do 'what's best' for them. They aren't being allowed to be children. What I think we should change is our perception of children.

His mother was impossible to get pregnant, and when she did get pregnant she gave me one boy. Mission accomplished.

My mother would not want this to happen. She held out hope for black men to the last minute. My mother didn't even allow us to talk negatively about black men. That's just the way she felt. She was very forgiving and she had great hopes and dreams for the black male. That was her whole thing.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

She found writings that Jeff had written stating that if Hitler were a 60-watt bulb, then my mother is a 1,000-watt bulb.

It's one thing to thank your mother, or someone who helped get your first job so you didn't have to sleep in your car. Hilary Swank gave one of the best speeches (for 1999's Boys Don't Cry) by staying personal. But who wants to hear a list of attorneys

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.