Mother Quotes

"My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life"

Michel Legrand, Composer

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium"

Mary Kay Blakely

"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me"

Luke Perry, Actor

"This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next"

Nora Ephron, Author

"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business"

Jack Davenport, Actor

"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play"

Paula Zahn, Journalist

"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career"

James Ellroy, Writer

"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do"

Lois Wyse

"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken"

Lemuel K. Washburn

"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement"

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Writer

"My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time"

Richard Gough

"They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24"

Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home"

LeBron James, Athlete

"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"A boy's best friend is his mother"

Joseph Stefano, Writer

"I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it"

Josh Holloway, Actor

"I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you"

Nora Ephron, Author

"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands"

Hermione Gingold, Actress

"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad"

Soundarya, Actress

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