Mother Quotes

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

As the mother of two girls, it's important to me that they see themselves too-in books, films, and on runways. It's important to me that they see themselves as CEOs, as bosses, and that they know they can write the script for their own lives-that they can speak their minds and they have no ceiling.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

It bothered me that my mother was crying all the time. She thought God might be punishing her for something... So I just told her I was happy to be blind and I think she felt better after that.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.