Quotes About Mother

I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there.

I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves every time she left the house.

My mother never slept.

For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of jam depends on what particular fruit is being harvested. I learned how to make it from my mother.

I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.

As a mother of four and a small business owner, I know it takes discipline and tough choices to balance a budget.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

When I first got pregnant, my husband and I were huge consumers of premium cable television, and we were watching all of these shows, and it would either be the B-storyline of a show like 'Homeland,' where she's a working mother, or you have even smaller C-storylines on a show like 'Mad Men.'

My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It's one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don't know why she added an 's,' but she just did.

I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.

I don't know if I am like her, but I am told that my eyes and my smile are like mom's.

I don't want to say it myself, but Gautam is a very good-looking boy. He has my eyes and Mahesh's smile.

I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.

All credit to my mother who, despite having to look after eight children, always made time for exercise. She'd work out to Jane Fonda and later Kathy Smith and Cindy Crawford in between managing us.

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold.

It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.

Amy, his mother, is not the mending type. Her speciality is thrashing grown-up men until they whimper for mercy.

Sophie could feel Syrena's sigh; the mermaid's body beneath her sagged with it. "Can't even be mad at you," the mermaid said, her voice little more than a mumble. "You too stupid to even be mad at. You live in world without poetry, without poets. You think poet's job to tell your mother happy birthday. You are such a fool you don't even know you are a fool. How can I be mad at such fool? Poet's job to create the world.

Tú no tienes madre? - No, no la tengo. Debió de interesarle mi orfandad porque oí crujir las sábanas como si su cuerpo buscara una postura más cómoda para escuchar. Pero yo no añadí nada. Al contrario, apunté la conversación hacia lo que a mí me interesaba. Lo hice con tiento, con miedo, como si a pesar de mis pocos años ya tuviese una sensación inconsciente de que pisaba terreno prohibido.