Family: Mother Quotes

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"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay"

Scott Baio, Actor

"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"There is a woman at the begining of all great things"

Alphonse de Lamartine, Poet

"My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that"

Cathy Freeman, Athlete

"Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did"

Angela Bassett, Actress

"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before"

Julie Walters, Actress

"My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood"

Susie Bright, Writer

"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother"

Anzia Yezierska, Novelist

"For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home"

Jessica Lange, Actress

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

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive"

Ann Oakley, Sociologist

"My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"I wanted above all else not to be like my mum"

Julie Walters, Actress

"To be sure, a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!"

Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist

"I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks"

Florence Henderson, Actress

"I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet"

Jung Chang, Writer

"My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school, which I was attending, wanted, in spite of everything, to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer"

Leon Jouhaux, Leader

"We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me"

Julie Christie, Actress

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

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms"

Usher Raymond, Musician

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