Family: Mother Quotes

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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"My mother used to tell me, no matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college"

Steve Harvey, Actor

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers"

Edward W. Howe, Writer

"My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds"

Carol Alt, Model

Carol Alt

"I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one"

Frances McDormand, Actress

Frances McDormand

"My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating"

Ben Affleck, Actor

Ben Affleck

"I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy"

Jeff Foxworthy, Comedian

Jeff Foxworthy

"I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value"

Sissy Spacek, Actress

"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show, just so I know to keep it real"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

Reese Witherspoon

"In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home"

Leslie Banks, Actor

"My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

Balthazar Getty

"And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are what their mothers made them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"Mothers are the necessity of invention"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

Bill Watterson

"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

Andrea Dworkin

"My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time"

Julia Roberts, Actress

Julia Roberts

"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"

Eva Green, Actress

Eva Green

"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

Hugh Leonard

"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

Loretta Lynn

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