The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law.” Raphael’s look was priceless. “My mother is an insane archangel.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

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