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Quotes About Relationships

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
~ Elizabeth Perkins
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
~ Elvis Presley
I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
~ Cheryl Cole
My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.
~ Denzel Washington
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
~ Charles Kuralt
It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
~ Laurence Harvey
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
~ Lillian Hellman
I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
~ Stephen Sondheim
It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.
~ Tricia Helfer
If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.
~ Rene Preval
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
~ Lucinda Roy
My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.
~ Ram Kapoor
Men often marry their mothers.
~ Edna Ferber
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
~ George Gershwin
I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
~ Isabel Allende
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
~ Gabrielle Anwar
If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.
~ Irving Pichel
Mugged by my own mother.
~ Rick Riordan
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
~ Caroline Kennedy
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
~ Robert Breault
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
~ Gelett Burgess
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
~ Robert Bly