Mother Quotes

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Scientist

"I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian"

Michelle Hunziker, Actress

"I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything"

Roma Downey, Actress

"So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested"

Terry Zwigoff, Director

"When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter"

Terri Apter

"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas"

Mary Crosby, Actress

"I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her"

Linda Lavin, Actress

"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show"

Randy West, Entertainer

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years"

James Ellroy, Writer

"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good"

Lorraine Bracco, Actress

"We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother"

Francis Maude, Politician

"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college"

Roma Downey, Actress

"When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything"

Scott Baio, Actor

"Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune"

Sonny Rollins, Musician

"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers"

Margaret O'Brien, Actress

"Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself"

Leah Remini, Actress

"My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name"

Holly Marie Combs, Actress

"But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth"

Dennis Banks, Educator

"The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!"

Christopher Knight, Actor

"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer"

David Antin, Poet

"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment"

Bob Ney, Politician

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