Mother Quotes

"I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died"

"If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother"

Patty Duke, Actress

"Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting"

John Hume, Politician

"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame"

June Carter Cash, Musician

"Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely"

Frank McCourt, Author

"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother"

Dana Delany, Actress

"My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home"

Christine Keeler, Model

"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations"

Carol Shields, Author

"How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"

Cassandra Wilson, Musician

"Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth"

Anna Friel, Actress

"I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"A guilty conscience is the mother of invention"

Carolyn Wells, Author

"And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals"

Ann Oakley, Sociologist

"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do"

Kim Basinger, Actress

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