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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
— Christopher Buckley
When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Mother: "He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I'd still get something out of it. I guess that's true." An
— Eula Biss
Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
— Henrik Ibsen
You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale. — Kiera Cass
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale. — Kiera Cass
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
— C.S. Lewis
From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember
— Lorrie Moore
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
— Hoagy Carmichael
Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.
— Bindi Irwin
Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
— Sandy Duncan
Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.
— Courteney Cox
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
— Saint John Chrysostom
When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.
— Colin Firth
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
— Muriel Rukeyser
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.
— Gloria Furman
He can't be a baby forever. He's a Stark, and near four." Robb sighed. "Well, Mother will be home soon. And I'll bring back Father, I promise.
— George R R Martin
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.
— Pope Francis
My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
— Anne Waldman
As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.
— Segolene Royal
October had roared in as if Mother Nature was pissed off at the world, and maybe in need of a Xanax to boot.
— Jill Shalvis
Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.
— Greg Peterson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates
— Samuel Richardson
All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.
— Joan Hackett
Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
— Peter Fonda
They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.
— Martin McGuinness
The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler.
— George R R Martin
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
— George Bernard Shaw
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
— Lynn Johnston
It takes a checkbook to change the world
— Mother Teresa
Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
— Michael Emerson
Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you.
— Cassandra Clare
In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy.
— Marilyn French
The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?
— Mother Meera
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
— Siri Hustvedt
Marriage? Please. I'll keep my freedom, thanks. Besides, I'm not a girl anyone brings home to their mother.
— S.A. Huchton
You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved.
— Robbie Vorhaus
She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.
— Taiye Selasi
Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.
— E.L. Konigsburg
One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
— Mother Teresa
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
— Dorothy Malone
Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.
— Matthew De Abaitua
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
— Gunter Grass
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.
— Ginger Rogers
And isna Sybilla a wee love o' a bitch?'
'You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett
'You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.
— Helen Steiner Rice
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
— Gary Sheffield
And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What
— Anton Chekhov
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.
— Andrea Gibson
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
— Rabindranath Tagore
I like being a mother.
— Amanda Abbington
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
— Mother Teresa
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
— Carly Simon
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes ... And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
— Jodi Picoult
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
— Barbara Delinsky
I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.
— Denise Bidot
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.
— Augusten Burroughs
A father's suspicion...' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'
~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'
~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold
The most comfortable place on earth is the arms of a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan
A mother is God's deputy on earth.
— Rahel Varnhagen
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
— Thelma Golden
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
— Guy Pearce
I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
— Frances McDormand
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
— Sergei Prokofiev
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on.
— Toni Cade Bambara
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
— Yves Klein
If steak is the tuxedo of meat, and bacon is the candy of meat, then a good cheeseburger is the mother's hug of meat.
— Jim Gaffigan
There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
— Michael Jackson
I remembered something my mother used to say. "The devil can quote scripture." "And in a pleasing voice," Mrs. Shoplaw agreed moodily.
— Stephen King
Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?
— Cassandra Clare
You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.
— Angela Flournoy
Dooku chose his next words carefully. "Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy's mother, the boy had no father.
— James Luceno
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes.
— Kate Winslet
She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother
— Lorrie Moore
Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
— Nick Bostrom
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
— Carolyn Wells
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
— Caroline Kennedy