Quotes of: Better-mother Keyword

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Peter Orszag

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Stephen King

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

Sam Rockwell

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Jose Andres Puerta

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

Julian Castro

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

Tyson Gay

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Nick Cave

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Sitting Bull

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Patricia Ireland

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

Cara Buono

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Carrie Fisher

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

Dominique Moceanu

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Dan Rather

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Gunter Grass

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Patsy Kensit

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

Shaun White

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Tori Amos

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

Tory Burch

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

Andie MacDowell

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

Carol Burnett