Mother Quotes - page 99

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do. (Celine Dion)
I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother. View quote
Celine Dion
The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother. View quote
Celine Dion
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. View quote
Celine Dion
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. View quote
Dave Brubeck
I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks. View quote
Dave Brubeck
I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.... victory after victory, [laughing.. ] Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. [she pauses].. My mother had victories. View quote
Agnes Martin
I will talk to my sister, my daughter and my mother, the women, in July 24, when I asked you to gave me the mandate and the order to combat possible terrorism, The Egyptian woman with all her plainness, took her husband, her children, her food during Ramadan and took the streets. and the world watched her. take them again and let the world see you again. View quote
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Egypt is the mother of the world and will be as great as the world. View quote
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
WHEN father bought the lamp, or a little before that, he said to mother: "Hark ye, mother-ought n't we to buy us a lamp?" "A lamp? What sort of a lamp?" "What! Don't you know that the storekeeper who lives in the market town has brought from St. Petersburg lamps that actually burn better than ten päreä? [1] They've already got a lamp of the sort at the parsonage." "Oh, yes! Is n't it one of those things which shines in the middle of the room so that we can see to read in every corner, just as if it was broad daylight?" "That's just it. There's oil that burns in it, and you only have to light it of an evening, and it burns on without going out till the next morning." "But how can the wet oil burn?" View quote
Juhani Aho
The storm that hit the United States was the result of every mother or father's prayer, or an orphaned son, or a woman whose honour was taken away in Iraq or Afghanistan. (Abu Musab Zarqawi)
I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her. View quote
Alexandra Fuller
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. View quote
Alejandro Amenabar
. never in my life I have seen such a truly sad thing [an atmosphere at Wolfheze ]. A mother heartbroken about the loss of her only child is nothing compared to this. A broad streak or strip in front of you, which becomes blacker and blacker towards the horizon. a mysterious ticking and hissing of rain drops which keep hanging halfway the heather plant on each twig and sprout.. View quote
Anton Mauve
Finally.... I will have finished the paintings for my uncle. I have completely reworked them since my last letter [to his mother, 5 May 1865]; originally I had included a mass of details, which, from the distance they were intended to be viewed, had a very bad effect. I have worked at breakneck speed for two weeks, and now I am rather pleased, at least with one of them. View quote
Frédéric Bazille
Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be my problem. View quote
Jair Bolsonaro
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. View quote
Carla Bruni
I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis! View quote
Carla Bruni
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it. View quote
Jo Brand
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. View quote
Roseanne Barr
Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure. (Bipasha Basu)
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry. View quote
Billy Graham
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out. View quote
Linda Blair
Prince Wilhelm has taken up an attitude strongly against England, a quite natural reaction for the most part against the efforts of his mother to make Anglomaniacs of her children. View quote
Alfred von Waldersee
If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty. View quote
Gloria Vanderbilt