5,322 Quotes About Mother

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

My mother raised me, and then freed me,