Quotes of: Mother Keyword

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Jefferson Mays

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

Jerry Stiller

Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death

James Thomson

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

John Updike

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Jack Whitehall

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

Daniel Craig

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Dave Hickey

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

Dominique Moceanu

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

D.L. Moody

No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love.

Debasish Mridha

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

James E. Faust

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

Jim Hightower

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

John C. Hawkes

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

James Kidd

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Nora Ephron

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

Cherie Lunghi

Shakes' Father: [to Shakes' mother] I buried one fucking wife, I can bury another.

Sleepers

Teddy: Did your mother have any kids that lived? Vern: What do you mean?

Stand by Me

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

Gail Simmons

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

Isabel Allende

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

Kirsty Gallacher