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Quotes About Mother

For as long as I live, I will honor the warrior code and not train another kit who should still be at his mother's belly. Go now, little one, and walk with warriors.
~ Erin Hunter
Tigerkit was nagging his mother. "Why can't I go out?" "You've just come in." "But it's a sunny day." "You need a nap." "I'm not tired." "You will be later." "I'll sleep then." "But you'll be grumpy all afternoon if you don't nap now." "No, I won't." "Yes, you will." Snowfur rolled her eyes at Bluefur.
~ Erin Hunter
Our real mother lied, too," Hollyleaf pointed out, a snarl creeping into her voice. "Whoever she was .
~ Erin Hunter
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck
All of them have tentacles, like their mother! The youngest one in curls!" Diehl laughed. Cruz laughed. I laughed.
~ Ernest Cline
In Atwater v. Lago Vista in 2001, the Court held that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they arrested a mother, and took her to the stationhouse for booking, for not having her children in seat belts
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Mom is talking to Jack. "I hear you're interested in zoo animals." I snort. There's a sentence you don't hear too often. I fake an insulted sigh. "Well, thank-you, Mother. Yes, I'm hungry, but you don't have to be so honest about it. Your tact is amazing.
~ Erynn Mangum
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
~ Esther Williams
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
~ Ethel Waters
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
~ Ethel Waters
Só was haar ma. Spits altyd die ore. In die gesin word gesê: Ore is Ma se primêre organe. Haar hart sal al staan, dan luister sy nog. Haar pa se speelse waarskuwing: "Ma gaan ons nog eendag uit die graf afluister!
~ Etienne van Heerden
And just as the child gradually breaks off the habit of regarding his mother only as a means of satisfying his own desires and learns to love her for her own sake, so the worshipper after a struggle has reached an attitude of mind in which he desires God for himself and not as a means of fulfillment of his own wishes.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
She kept her voice gentle and her eyes down, for without such softening traits, Haejung's mother had often said, a woman's presence would be like a thorn and not a flower.
~ Eugenia Kim
My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.
~ Euripides
I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?
~ Eva Green
In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
~ Evan Esar
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
~ Evan Esar
My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.
~ Mickalene Thomas
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
~ Michael Shannon
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
~ Jefferson Mays
My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
~ Derek Walcott
My mother was a very amazing woman. She was a very strong, remarkable woman.
~ Tina Knowles