Mother Quotes

Small: Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?"
Trey Parker, Artist
Small: My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teachers family
"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family"
Simon van der Meer, Physicist
Small: I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child.
"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked"
Sigourney Weaver, Actress
Small: I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we ar
"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home"
Ruby Wax, Comedian
Small: Being a mother is hard and it wasnt a subject I ever studied
"Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied"
Ruby Wax, Comedian
Small: My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody
"My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year"
Roberto Benigni, Actor
Small: I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4
"I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing"
Obie Trice, Musician
Small: An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons
"An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons"
Humphrey Lyttelton, Musician
Small: My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasnt around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the pr
"My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly"
Mark Strong, Actor
Small: I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out l
"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room"
Mary Lou Williams, Musician
Small: To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with ones mother
"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother"
Barry Humphries, Entertainer
Small: I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true
"I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true"
Louise Fletcher, Actress
Small: My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credi
"My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you"
Vin Diesel, Actor
Small: My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of gradu
"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage"
Kenneth G. Wilson, Scientist
Small: Ive been overwhelmed I was a single mother for a time
"I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time"
Kelly Lynch, Actress
Small: It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film indus
"It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's"
Karl Urban, Actor
Small: Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time
"Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth"
Richard J. Codey, Politician
Small: When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage
"When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage"
Nomar Garciaparra, Athlete
Small: My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her
"My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her"
Guy Johnson
Small: My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wa
"My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer"
Leon Jouhaux, Leader
Small: A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary"
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author
Small: Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy
Karolina Kurkova
"Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy"
Karolina Kurkova, Model
Small: We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we reli
"We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?"
Frank Pittman
Small: We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a
"We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father"
Anne C. Weisberg
Small: I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. Im going through the same thing with my daughter now. I l
"I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading"
Dorothy Hamill, Athlete
Small: When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you cant live here and do that, and so I moved
"When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going"
Cicely Tyson, Actress
Small: My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother
"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother"
Wilma Rudolph, Athlete
Small: I dont know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the w
"I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother"
Danny Aiello, Actor
Small: My mother was a politician in my formative years
"My mother was a politician in my formative years"
Antonia Fraser, Author
Small: I wish I had a great relationship with my mother
"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother"
Chely Wright, Musician
Small: As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers.
"As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother"
Kathryn Stockett, Novelist
Small: In their 30s women really start to live... theyre not children anymore, and theyre not just mothers
"In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers"
Kelly Lynch, Actress
Small: Its not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actuall
"It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try"
Joseph Stefano, Writer
Small: My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence
"My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence"
Jai Rodriguez, Actor
Small: Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?
"Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?"
Jay Livingston, Composer
Small: My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University
"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University"
James Cronin, Physicist
Small: I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole
R. Kelly
"I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day"
R. Kelly, Musician
Small: I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control
"I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control"
Muriel Spark, Novelist
Small: My mother could never understand why I didnt write a thriller, which Ive finally done
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done"
Harry Mathews, Author
Small: My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for ever
"My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone"
Mike Honda, Politician
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