Mother Quotes

"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly)"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better"

Linda Evans, Actress

"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends"

Rita Dove, Poet

"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"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"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think"

Halle Berry, Actress

"My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her"

Jung Chang, Writer

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me"

Richard Dooling, Novelist

"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family"

John Prescott, Politician

"I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk"

James Patterson, Author

"But I still always felt the absence of a mother"

Marcel Carne, Director

"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make"

James Gandolfini, Actor

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time"

Suzy Bogguss, Musician

"I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds"

Tracey Gold, Actress

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