- 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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
- Confine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
- Embassy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020