Mother Quotes

"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"I loved my mother, she's a good girl"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college"

Dana Hill, Actress

"My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it"

Dane Cook, Comedian

"There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness"

Alphonsus Liguori, Clergyman

"My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history"

Angie Everhart, Model

"Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

"I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up"

Leo Durocher, Athlete

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that"

Vera Wang, Designer

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'"

Tom Hooper, Director

"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'"

Tom Hooper, Director

"My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!"

Andrei Platonov, Writer

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed"

Harold MacMillan, Politician

"The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"The most wonderful experience I ever had was becoming a mother. The only thing that could compare would be my work as an actress"

Laraine Day, Actress

"My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. I don't think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don't think it would happen today"

Prince Harry, Royalty

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