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Quotes About Mother

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.
~ Demi Lovato
My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.
~ Emma Thompson
I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.
~ Sidney Poitier
Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
~ Erma Bombeck
My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.
~ Novak Djokovic
The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.
~ Hallie Ephron
I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother
~ Hannah Milhous Nixon
Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse
~ Spike Milligan
It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.
~ Peter Sohn
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
~ Gregory Corso
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
~ Philip Levine
My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
~ Henry Rollins
When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'
~ Ronald Reagan
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
~ Henry Taylor
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.
~ Steve Harvey
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
~ Anne Lamott
For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
~ Patti Smith
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
~ Simon Callow
When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
~ Kristin Scott Thomas