Mother Quotes

"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home"

"As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it"

William Dean Howells, Author

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully"

Chris Brown, Musician

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love"

Stevie Wonder, Musician

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland"

Peter Steele, Musician

"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me"

George Rogers Clark, Soldier

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to"

Gypsy Rose Lee, Entertainer

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

Page 5 of 28