Family: Mother Quotes

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"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned, but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

Etta James, Musician

"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"My mother showed me what it means to be a person who is free inside, when the world outside is designed to hold you down"

Trevor Noah, Comedian

"My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. I don't think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don't think it would happen today"

Prince Harry, Royalty

"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever"

Andy Partridge, Musician

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world"

Alice Duer Miller, Poet

"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband"

Little Richard, Musician

"People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver"

Barbara Billingsley, Actress

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother"

Frank Pittman

"I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom"

Ashley Tisdale, Actress

"My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies"

Lucas Grabeel, Actor

"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed"

Annette Bening, Actress

"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

"Like any working mother, I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body, so I haven't done anything that bad"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"I miss my mother very, very much"

Paul Haggis, Director

"My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people"

David Dinkins, Politician

"My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"The older I get, the more of my mother I see in myself"

Nancy Friday, Author

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"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

"My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in"

Liz Phair, Musician

"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

"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me"

Devon Sawa, Actor

"When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me"

Ethel Waters, Musician

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