#Mother Quotes

“So loving to my mother,That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,Visit her face' too roughly.”

“My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.”

“My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.”

“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”

“Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.”

“My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.”

“My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.”

“Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women. I've written songs that show great love and respect for women too. Songs that talk about strong, upstanding women and their pain. I have women working on my music. They understand where I'm coming from. So does my mama. I always play my music for her before it comes out. Why do you think I wrote "Dear Mama"? I wrote it for my mama because I love her and I felt I owed her something deep.”

“When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.”

“My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.”

“Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.”

“It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.”

“So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.”

“June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.”

“Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place”

“The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.”

“My mother was the making of me.”

“My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

“I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.”

“When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.”

“The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

“My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.”

“Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother”

“I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.”

“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”

“They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them”

“My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.”

“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.”

“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.”

“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”

“Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.”

“My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.”

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

“My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle”

“I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.”

“I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.”

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

“I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.”

“My mother raised me, and then freed me.”

“If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.”

“Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.”

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

“I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.”

“I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.”

“Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.”

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.”

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”