Mother Quotes

"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs"

Philip Levine, Poet

"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me"

Sally Field, Actress

"My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman"

Ryan Stiles, Actor

"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there"

Robert Cormier, Author

"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"Thank God for your mother"

David O. Selznick, Producer

"I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin"

Virginia Madsen, Actress

"Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet"

Jung Chang, Writer

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician"

Angela Lansbury, Actress

"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet"

Philip Levine, Poet

"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966"

June Jordan, Writer

"Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

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