Quotes about mother
mother growing-up sides
My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace. Lenny Kravitz
mother couple love-you
Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.
mother together circus
My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.
mother advice realizing
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
mother daughter heart
From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain. Lee Grant
mother father mean
I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am]. Lee Daniels
mother reading kids
My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back. Laurie David
mother jobs father
Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. Laurie Halse Anderson
mother stupid school
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.
mother sorry upset
I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?
mother sibling challenges
A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have similar challenges. One could make the case that it's nurture, not nature because these twins were brought up together, but you can't rule out the genetic argument. Laura Berman
mother teacher father
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures. Laura Benanti
mother religious heart
There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. I recall when I left [Jack Gordon], and my mother was so upset. "How could you allow him to beat you? You should really be upset with him." And I said, "Mother, I can't be." She goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I can't harbor hatred in my heart." I was extremely religious and extremely naïve. God took me through that for a reason, for me to learn the outcome. LaToya Jackson
mother character years
My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am. Lark Voorhies
mother angel kissing
I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them. Lara Flynn Boyle
mother father careers
Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests. Larenz Tate
mother children facts
It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers. L. Ron Hubbard
mother baby children
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
mother justice mercy
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. Thomas Aquinas
mother artist wings
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers. Thom Yorke
mother names born
When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
mother santa santa-claus
I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
mother house want
I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er
mother eye
My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
mother daughter responsibility
You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes. Theresa May
mother religious queens
She is more Mother than Queen. Therese of Lisieux
mother religious joy
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
mother religious jesus
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.
mother religious trials
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
mother kids santa
I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me. Terry Zwigoff
motherhood stronger vulnerable
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you. Tess Gerritsen
mother creative leaving
I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present. Terry Tempest Williams
mother cancer inward
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.