Mother Quotes

"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done"

Buck Owens, Musician

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go"

Teri Garr, Actress

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother"

Joan Chen, Actress

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"My mother taught me to read"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it"

Sylvia Browne, Celebrity

"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business"

Celine Dion, Musician

"My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not"

Nia Long, Actress

"That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country"

Sela Ward, Actress

"I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother"

Hesiod, Poet

"But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Ignorance is the mother of all evils"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

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