Quotes of: Mother Keyword

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

Ursula Burns

Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny.

Love

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world.

Life

If you aren’t nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

Life

whoever has grown without a mother has missed half of his/her lifetime

Love

Don't let sex make you a mother before love makes you a wife.

Love

my mother sensed a war in her womb, and so she raised me to fight.

Love

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

Yoko Ono

I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

Debby Ryan

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Temple Grandin

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Erykah Badu

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

Henri Rousseau

You must make a choice,” the Goddess said. “Is that my only choice – to choose between men?” I asked. “I want what Mother had!” “Your mother chose two men,” she said with light laughter. “No! She chose independence for her country. ...

Cleopatra's Moon

Some people say it is a shame. Others even imply that it would have been better if the baby had never been created. But the short time I had with my child is precious to me. It is painful to me, but I still wouldn't wish it away. I prayed that God wo...

An Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers after Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death

I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice that said the world was dangerous and safety was always the first measure and that often confused pleasure with danger, the mother who...

The Faraway Nearby

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sa...

Handle with Care

A grim expression came over Syah’s face. “The colt you speak of lost its mother during a storm. If this stallion was that colt, it is not just wild, it is insane. That horse will break your bones.” “And that will be a worthy end, a prince str...

Brother, Betrayed

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you wan...

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. ...

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You