Mother quotes

“I praticed 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.” Jim Carrey

“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.” Jim Carrey

“I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.” Jim Carrey

“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.” Jim Carrey

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.” Clint Eastwood

“Men are what their mothers made them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.” Maya Angelou

“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.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.” Mick Jagger

“My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.” Kim Kardashian

“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.” Stephen King

“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.” Rudyard Kipling

“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!” Rudyard Kipling

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” Rudyard Kipling

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” Rudyard Kipling

“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.” Paul McCartney

“My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.” Groucho Marx

“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.” Barack Obama

“I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.” Barack Obama

“My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.” Marilyn Manson

“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.” Michelle Obama

“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.” Michelle Obama

“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.” Michelle Obama

“When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” Michelle Obama

“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.” Pope John Paul II

“There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.” Pope John Paul II