Mother Quotes and Sayings

One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother was battling her ovarian cancer. In a way, it brought our family together and opened up relationships and a closeness that was not felt before her diagnosis.

Beautiful • Beautiful Experiences • Closeness • Family • Life • Love • Mother • Way

The fact that my mother's life was cut short is something that pushes me to always move forward and live the best life I possibly can. In a way, I feel like I can take her along with me through every experience, and in that sense, her beautiful energy and spirit will live on.

Beautiful • Best • Cut Short • Every Experience • Feel • Forward • Life • Live • Me • Mother • Sense • Something • Way

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height – or to slouch.

Approve • Exception • Girls • Heels • Height • Me • Mother • She • Teenage • Want

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

Could • Jivin • Me • Mother • Nobody • She • Too

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Beautiful • Good • Guitar • Half • Known • Lady • Me • Mother • Nine • Player • She • Something

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

Blind • Johnson • Listen • Lonnie • Me • Mother • Music • People • Records • Time

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him.

Child • Children • Families • Me • Mother • Parents

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Family • Father • Mother • Ordinary • Ordinary Citizens • Ordinary Family • Up • Worker

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Age • Artist • Artistic • Contract • Early • Early Age • Me • Mother