Mother Quotes

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage"

"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups"

"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.""

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"Necessity, the mother of invention"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

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

Meryl Streep, Actress

"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video"

Dan Aykroyd, Comedian

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world"

Alice Duer Miller, Poet

"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband"

Little Richard, Musician

"My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright"

Lee Kuan Yew, Statesman

"Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!"

George M. Cohan, Actor

"I am scared of becoming a mother"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child"

Robert Casey, Politician

"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo"

Richard H. Davis

"My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer"

James Cameron, Director

"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth"

Mary Antin, Activist

"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions"

Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

"I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"I miss my mother very, very much"

Paul Haggis, Director

"My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated"

David Dinkins, Politician

"My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people"

David Dinkins, Politician

"That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

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