Quotes on Mother

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.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

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.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.