Family: Mother Quotes

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"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her I got the taste to read"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

"My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income"

Dorothy Hamill, Athlete

"Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress"

Kate Beckinsale, Actress

"You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members"

Julie Walters, Actress

"And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis"

Susie Bright, Writer

"I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with!"

Faith Hill, Musician

"I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom"

Susie Bright, Writer

"So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children"

Pat Boone, Musician

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother, it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her"

Jung Chang, Writer

"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way"

John Lone, Actor

"My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me"

Anne Heche, Actress

"When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything"

Scott Baio, Actor

"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance"

Bill Murray, Actor

"I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart"

Anne Heche, Actress

"My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable!"

Diane Abbott, Politician

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age"

Joel Coen, Director

"But to the slave mother New Year's Day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year"

Colin Firth, Actor

"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this.', she just encouraged us to do whatever we liked"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about. I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week, they think you must be starving"

Angela Bassett, Actress

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