Family: Mother Quotes

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"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

"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that"

Vera Wang, Designer

"Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents"

Adele, Musician

"In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me"

Adele, Musician

"My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother"

Christian Morgenstern, Poet

"Even though when you write a synopsis you have to say the film is about genocide, for me it's a film about a mother who's protecting her family"

Jasmila Žbanić, Director

"I have to dedicate this to my mom, to all the moms in the world, because they are really the superheroes, and without them none of us would be here tonight"

Michelle Yeoh, Actress

"When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes"

Savannah Guthrie, Journalist

"A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships"

Victoria Secunda, Author

"The most wonderful experience I ever had was becoming a mother. The only thing that could compare would be my work as an actress"

Laraine Day, Actress

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of"

Amy Heckerling, Director

"Mr. Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action"

Marguerite Oswald

"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay"

Larisa Oleynik, Actress

"She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic"

Tonya Harding, Athlete

"I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that she's just called up to say she was alright"

Lee Kuan Yew, Statesman

"Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother"

Gregory Nunn, Athlete

"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told"

Chastity Bono, Celebrity

"It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's"

Heather Mills, Activist

"My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers"

Pauly Shore, Comedian

"Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism"

Jessi Colter, Musician

"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band"

Travis Barker, Musician

"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis: a lot of different types of music"

Travis Barker, Musician

"When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"Most of all, the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world"

Kate D. Wiggins, Writer

"My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety"

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Scientist

"I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends"

Douglas Feaver

"My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life"

Kelly Brook, Model

"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress"

Valerie Bertinelli, Actress

"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her"

Gregory Corso, Poet

"It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M"

Ryan White, Celebrity

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