Mother Quotes - page 97

You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny. (Leila Slimani)
People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous. View quote
Leila Slimani
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring. View quote
Laetitia Casta
I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career. View quote
Lea Michele
When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech. View quote
Lea Michele
I love that I've become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love cooking. I seem to make them comfortable. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is German. And I did a little research - his mother was a chef. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me becoming a mother. View quote
Liz Murray
Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother. (Lisa Gardner)
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence. View quote
Lisa Lutz
My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up. View quote
Lisa Lutz
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way. View quote
Lisa Lutz
My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. View quote
Lily Collins
I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations. View quote
Linda Lael Miller
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
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. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I left New York after my mother died and, rather aimlessly, had settled in Istanbul for a change of scene. It was a rather dramatic gesture on my part, since I'd lived in New York for 20 years, but I felt I needed something different - the escalating expense and pressure of New York had begun to weary me. View quote
Lawrence Osborne
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby. (Luanne Rice)
An attic's the afterlife of a house,” said Otille, opening the door. "Or so my mother used to say. View quote
Lucius Shepard
Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months. View quote
Michael Greger
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time. View quote
Annie Lennox
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life. View quote
Annie Lennox