Family: Mother Quotes

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"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet"

Philip Levine, Poet

"My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"Looks like she's been slapping the kid again"

Dashiell Hammett, Author

"I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother"

Danny Aiello, Actor

"I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

"When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself"

Nancy Friday, Author

"My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying, I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer"

Danny Aiello, Actor

"Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'"

Mary Kay Blakely, Writer

"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity"

Arthur E. Waite

"I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, 'If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare'"

Kate Moss, Model

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, "Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you". She says, "Toughen up, this is reality we are living in""

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"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

"I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"Thomas was my true name, but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium"

Mary Kay Blakely, Writer

"My mom died when I was 8"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life"

Joseph C. Lincoln, Writer

"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York"

Victor Garber, Actor

"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good, and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done"

William Devane, Actor

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through"

James Cagney, Actor

"In fact, my mom always told me, because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Scientist

"My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time!"

Suzy Bogguss, Musician

"So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested?"

Terry Zwigoff, Director

"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? She asked. Or are you still just writing?"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles"

Emma Stone, Actress

"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 love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me"

Lorna Luft, Actress

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