3695 Mother Quotes for You to Enjoy

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Work Me Mother Healthy Out Eat Horse Like Still Very Work Out Chocolate Appetite Brings Britain

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano. Cecil Taylor

Me Mother Fingers Pianist Piano How Being Play

My mother was obsessed with clothes, so - as people do - I went in the other direction. Cecile Richards

People Mother Clothes Other Direction Obsessed

My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father. Celeste Ng

Morning Post Sometimes Mother Father Met Teen Mark Hong Kong Column Name Wrote She Lily Kong How South Up Confirmation China Growing Growing Up Her Margaret

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor. Celeste Ng

Mother Chemistry Own Became Up Ended Getting Eventually Professor Her

It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have with my mother.' Or say, 'Your book made me think a lot about my parents, and I've decided to sign up for counseling.' That is mind-boggling. Celeste Ng

There's a character I played in 'Love in a Cold Climate' - very like my mother. I asked if I could wear a man's shoes and hat to feed the chickens: all things from her. In fact, every part I play has got an enormous amount of her in it. Celia Imrie

Love Character Man Mother Shoes Every Enormous Cold Hat All Things Wear Fact Could Part Feed Like Got Climate Chickens Very In Fact Asked If I Could Play Her Amount Things Played

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. Celine Dion

Mom Business Mother More Am Than Want Successful Show Show Business

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock. Chad Smith

Mother Recording Finished Met Before Too Spin Peppers Guys Joined Through Had Know Drummer Friend End Familiar Quit Chili Former Next Next Thing Milk Thing Sock

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either? Chanda Kochhar

Mother Wife Compromise Either Should Working Chose Why

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to. Chanda Kochhar

Me Women Mother Achieve Ethics Father Values Example Whatever Way Say Tenacity Mentor He Instilled Showing Basic

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries. Chandra Wilson

Time Good Angry Me Relationship Mother Thought Hug Spend Worries All My Time Good Relationship Give Give Me My Time Could Had Come She Understand Sheltering HUGS Wanted Either Realized Choice Her Differently Here Needed

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later. Chang-Rae Lee

Me Mother Father Rest First Year Sister Later Way Followed Most Year Later Came Arrived Families Did Us

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left. Chantal Akerman

Work Mother Nobody Longer Because Left Center Realized Now

Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother. Charles Bronfman

War Me Age World Mother Will Troops Inspiration Blankets Never Never Forget Instilled Knitting Repair Doing Squares Forget Sent Early Early Age World War World War II Sibling

Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared. Charles Duhigg

Woman Suffering Charity Mother Nuns Bengali Indian Disappeared Remote Mission Missionaries She Tumor Placed Village Founded Monica Image

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western. Charles Kimbrough

Family Wonderful Mother Father Pianist Come Were Salesman Very

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. Charles Kuralt

Life Eyes Mother Father Society Saw Kids Insight Through Had Most Schoolteacher His Little Social Worker

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me. Charlie Hunnam

Me Man Mother Care Father Seen Sense Think Intervene Those Crippled Destitute About Beating Take Take Care Instinct Terms Make Course Boy Left Died Your Grown Grown Man Her Started

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