Quotes about "mother"

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Sell also: beget, engender, father, fuss, generate, get, sire

Definitions and meanings of word "mother"

• Noun: a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); example: "the mother of three children"

• Noun: a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar

• Noun: a term of address for an elderly woman

• Noun: a term of address for a mother superior

• Noun: a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; example: "necessity is the mother of invention"

• Verb: care for like a mother; example: "She fusses over her husband"

• Verb: make children; examples: "Abraham begot Isaac", "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "mother"

Lorna Luft
14 quotes about mother
American Actress
Born Friday 21 November 1952
Amy Tan
6 quotes about mother
American Writer, Novelist
Born Tuesday 19 February 1952
Erma Bombeck
7 quotes about mother
American Journalist
Monday 21 February 1927 - Monday 22 April 1996
Rudyard Kipling
3 quotes about mother
English Writer, Novelist, Poet, Soldier
Saturday 30 December 1865 - Saturday 18 January 1936
Julie Walters
6 quotes about mother
British Novelist, Actress
Born Wednesday 22 February 1950
Giada De Laurentiis
7 quotes about mother
American Writer, Chef
Born Saturday 22 August 1970
Katherine Heigl
7 quotes about mother
American Actress, Producer
Born Friday 24 November 1978
Christina Applegate
5 quotes about mother
American Actress
Born Thursday 25 November 1971
Lynn Johnston
5 quotes about mother
American Cartoonist
Born Wednesday 28 May 1947
Bede Griffiths
3 quotes about mother
British Clergyman
Monday 17 December 1906 - Thursday 13 May 1993
Ellen Barkin
3 quotes about mother
American Actress
Born Saturday 16 April 1955
Caroline Kennedy
6 quotes about mother
American Author, Celebrity, First Lady
Born Wednesday 27 November 1957

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

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There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

Rudyard Kipling

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Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Rudyard Kipling

Words: now, thrilled, wife, mother, hope, good, own
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Rudyard Kipling

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I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Rudyard Kipling

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I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Rudyard Kipling

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My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

Rudyard Kipling

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I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

Rudyard Kipling

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My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

Rudyard Kipling

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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

Rudyard Kipling

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I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

Rudyard Kipling

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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

Rudyard Kipling

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And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Rudyard Kipling

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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

Rudyard Kipling

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Rudyard Kipling

Words: mother, really, never, free
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Rudyard Kipling

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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Rudyard Kipling

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Rudyard Kipling

Words: mother, never, really, alone, thoughts, think, twice, once, child
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My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Rudyard Kipling

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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.

Rudyard Kipling

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