Family: Mother Quotes

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"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas Eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed"

Paul Engle, Poet

"When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business"

Jack Davenport, Actor

"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me"

Richard Dooling, Novelist

"I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie, I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress

"My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"But I still always felt the absence of a mother"

Marcel Carne, Director

"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness: hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life, a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter"

Terri Apter, Psychologist

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do, so surely I wasn't going to sing for her"

Linda Lavin, Actress

"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me!"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years"

James Ellroy, Writer

"We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother"

Francis Maude, Politician

"I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me, singing makes me a living"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers"

Margaret O'Brien, Actress

"With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information!"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself"

Leah Remini, Actress

"My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name"

Holly Marie Combs, Actress

"My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party"

Vanessa Carlton, Musician

"My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"In the seventeenth year of my age, my mother died"

William Lilly, Celebrity

"Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother, but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to"

Richard Fleeshman, Actor

"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her"

Judy Davis, Actress

"Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose"

Joely Fisher, Actress

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