Quotes About Growth

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

Mother's milk leads to everything.

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.