Mother Quotes - page 5

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. (William Wordsworth)
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. View quote
Nick Bostrom
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. View quote
Audre Lorde
There never was a child so lovely but his mother wasn't glad to get him asleep. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother. View quote
Jared Leto
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. View quote
Theodore Hesburgh
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
I found that being pregnant was different from how I thought it would be...It shares a lot in common with writing in a way. You have an imaginary version of yourself pregnant, and an imaginary baby, an imaginary idea of yourself as a mother... (Jackie Kay)
Silence is the mother of truth. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother. View quote
Melanie Klein
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. View quote
Calvin Trillin
Necessity, mother of invention. View quote
William Wycherley
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or better still, talk - that their parents were just as bad. View quote
John Ralston Saul
These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss. View quote
Mark Strand
Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. View quote
Mark Haddon
I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie. (Mark Haddon)
But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid. View quote
Mark Haddon
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. View quote
Patricia Highsmith