- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Quotes
On mothers, their advice, and what stays with us.
Several of these lines trace back to childhood impressions left by a mother's words, whether about appearance, privacy, or simply keeping close watch. For prayer-toned reflections, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.
- Good Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone's always shocked that I'm still based in Yorkshire, but going home there is my sanctuary. Home is where the heart is, and my mother, sister and brother are there, and my partner.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020