- Engineer
- |
- 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
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
- Girl
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
- Father
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.
- Instrument
- |
- Nov 07, 2020