Mother Quotes

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

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.