Mother Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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