Family: Mother Quotes

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"When the baby dies, on every side rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed, that men's eyes might not see her misery"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"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

"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 mother played piano, so we always had music around the house"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon, with my mother, seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework"

Vanna White, Celebrity

"It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"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

"Yeah, when I was 7 or 8, my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother"

Patty Duke, Actress

"My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from!"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized"

Martin Short, Actor

"My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it, and all of a sudden, it dies"

Christie Brinkley, Model

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

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child, I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

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

Celine Dion, Musician

"I gave life, and that is beautiful"

Celine Dion, Musician

"I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain"

Sarah Brightman, Musician

"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe"

Celine Dion, Musician

"My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year"

Roberto Benigni, Actor

"Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed"

Brooke Shields, Actress

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