Family: Mother Quotes

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"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona though"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street"

Mink Stole, Actress

"And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"Right now I'm still only 25, and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"Everything I am is because of my mom"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese"

Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity

"It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you"

Ouida, Novelist

"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother"

Joan Chen, Actress

"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely"

Frank McCourt, Author

"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"My mother taught me to read"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"I never turned down a mother role"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home"

Christine Keeler, Model

"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations"

Carol Shields, Author

"Well, ironically, my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict. In Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth"

Anna Friel, Actress

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary"

Anna Friel, Actress

"When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble"

Earl Campbell, Athlete

"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano"

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do"

Jane Seymour, Actress

"I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street"

Alice Barrett, Actress

"I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier"

Jamelia, Musician

"What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?"

Thomas Wentworth, Politician

"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this"

Morris Dees, Lawyer

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center"

Al Lewis, Actor

"Within a few hours, I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home"

Mary Lou Williams, Musician

"With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting"

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do"

Kim Basinger, Actress

"I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much, it's so silly"

Larisa Oleynik, Actress

"You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother, has no love for her daughter really"

Ellen Barkin, Actress

"When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, "They look like they could be mother and son""

Ellen Barkin, Actress

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