Family: Mother Quotes

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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother"

Chely Wright, Musician

"If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life"

Brittany Murphy, Actress

"I am loving being Momma. I really, really am"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"My mum loves cats, so I took her to see the lion cubs, which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home"

Amanda Holden, Actress

"Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper"

Mary Lou Williams, Musician

"As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child, you think of these people as an extension of your mother"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

"My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age"

Toby Keith, Musician

"I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is, we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University"

James Cronin, Physicist

"I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day"

R. Kelly, Musician

"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done"

Harry Mathews, Author

"As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction, I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither"

William Trevor, Writer

"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice, but I just didn't want to give it to her"

Linda Lavin, Actress

"I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better"

Linda Evans, Actress

"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx"

Cy Coleman, Composer

"When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby, what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child"

Ellen Barkin, Actress

"The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint"

James Fenton, Poet

"The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?"

Donald E. Westlake, Writer

"I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'"

Mary Lynn Rajskub, Actress

"My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot"

Little Milton, Musician

"There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is"

Fred Savage, Actor

"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there"

Marg Helgenberger, Actress

"The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to"

JoBeth Williams, Actress

"My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me"

Luke Perry, Actor

"My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

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