My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a billionaire.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresa and less Hitlers.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a billionaire.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresa and less Hitlers.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.