Mother Quotes

"Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother"

Liz Smith, Journalist

"My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways"

Lalu Prasad Yadav, Politician

"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her"

Gregory Corso, Poet

"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights"

William Wells Brown, Activist

"The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself"

Nancy Friday, Author

"I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys""

Harmon Killebrew, Athlete

"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street"

Mink Stole, Actress

"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick"

Mickey Spillane, Author

"One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them"

Nelson Piquet, Celebrity

"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania"

Herbie Mann, Musician

"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers"

Ella R. Bloor

"But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here"

Dorothy Dunnett, Novelist

"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!"

Fay Wray, Actress

"Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution"

Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany"

Friedrich List, Economist

"My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count"

Dave Van Ronk, Musician

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