Mother Quotes

"Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum"

Geri Halliwell, Musician

"What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends"

Holly Hunter, Actress

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her"

Joan Sutherland, Musician

"As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job"

Jane Goodall, Scientist

"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's"

Desmond Dekker, Musician

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother"

Broderick Crawford, Actor

"My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important"

Christina Applegate, Actress

"My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school"

Angela Bassett, Actress

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard"

Al Lewis, Actor

"Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior"

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realize that I'm walking even closer with my God"

Andy Griffith, Actor

"Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories"

Courteney Cox, Actress

"My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible"

Ahmet Zappa, Musician

"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian"

Ally Sheedy, Actress

"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

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