Top 1200 Birth Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follow the pen that is guiding and supporting me.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

While in 'Komban' I played the mother of Karthi, a relatively quiet character, the mother role in 'Kanchana 2' was a stark contrast.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

I felt so much closer to my mother after I had babies. It bonds a mother and daughter more.

Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn't believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby, stopped breathing and turned blue, her mother revived her by spanking her on the bottom. She saw life itself as a gift and saw her own survival as precious and a matter of chance.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

When I came into the movies, I was 27 years. I had the choice of playing the mother or sister. I chose mother.

I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother.

My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.

When you become a mother, you respect your mother so much more.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.

That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I have no memory at all of my mother shouting at me or at my sister. But I do have horrible memories of my father and the way he behaved. He was so tough on our mother.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they have to be understated.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

I am not into the mother sentiment, really. My heart is not into this ideal mother role; it does not work for me.

As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?

I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

I'm fine with playing the protagonist's mother, mother-in-law or friend - as long as my role is well-written.

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.