Family: Mother Quotes

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"My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt!"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed"

Jimmy Smith

"Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"My mother is still battling alcoholism"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer"

David Antin, Poet

"I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show"

Debra Messing, Actress

"It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me"

Susan Boyle, Musician

"I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance, and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.!"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing, and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it"

Ben Lindsey, Judge

"We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done"

Fay Wray, Actress

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed"

Fay Wray, Actress

"They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter, and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital, so I could have all my women together"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"Obviously, Victoria and Mel B have become mothers, and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum"

Geri Halliwell, Musician

"Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends"

Holly Hunter, Actress

"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper?"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything!"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball, there was always support"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college"

Dana Hill, Actress

"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"I begged my mom to let me start skating"

Debi Thomas, Athlete

"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories"

Courteney Cox, Actress

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it, so I would be invisible"

Ahmet Zappa, Musician

"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"If you look around Brazil, you see pregnant women everywhere. Here, you don't see that as much. There, the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families"

Adriana Lima, Model

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