Quotes about mother
mother appreciate sometimes
Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time. Salma Hayek
mother family-love appreciate
I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time. Salma Hayek
mother baby children
I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?' Salma Hayek
mother children mexican
A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children. Salma Hayek
mother baby worry
Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about! Salma Hayek
mother greatness want
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me. Salma Hayek
mother children my-children
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English. Salman Rushdie
mother religious father
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious. Salman Rushdie
mother character loss
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end. Salman Rushdie
mother doctors two
On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS. Ryan White
mother father parent
My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney. Ryan Seacrest
mother advice trying
I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. Wesley Snipes
mother cases
My mother was pretty much on my case all the time. Wesley Snipes
mother strong surround
I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me. Whitney Houston
mother daughter inspiration
My daughter is my greatest inspiration. Whitney Houston
mother daughter children
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children. Whitney Houston
mother house church
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. Whitney Houston
mother daughter priorities
I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first. Whitney Houston
mother loneliness singers
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. Whitney Houston
mother children believe
My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child. Whitney Houston
mother thinking years
I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways. Whitney Houston
mother taught
My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile. Whitney Houston
mother cat water
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that? Wendy Liebman
mother divorce said
My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money. Wendy Liebman
mother people helping
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration. Wendie Malick
mother daughter law
But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced. Wanda Sykes
mother children growing-up
Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children. Wangari Maathai
mother brother father
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them. Josie Loren
mother art children
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason. Jostein Gaarder
mother uncles father
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. Joseph C. Lincoln
mother believe long
If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves. Joseph Bruchac
mother hate animal
Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate! Joss Whedon
mother giving age
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. Koichi Tanaka