Mother Quotes

"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife"

Anne Northup, Politician

"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it"

Kristin Scott Thomas, Actress

"I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother"

Kristin Scott Thomas, Actress

"My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

Etta James, Musician

"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself"

Etta James, Musician

"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that"

Etta James, Musician

"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse"

Robert W. Service, Poet

"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school"

Douglass North, Economist

"My mother insisted that her children read"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit"

George III, Royalty

"When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience"

Robert Jenkins, Soldier

"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother"

Calamity Jane, Soldier

"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

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