Family: Mother Quotes

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"My mother had been a country and western singer, but when she moved out to Hollywood, found it very difficult to get work, so when I was born, they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk, actually"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"Over the years, my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother"

Karen Carpenter, Musician

"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing"

James MacArthur, Actor

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive"

Dom DeLuise, Actor

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me, but she was a great singer herself, and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her"

Joan Sutherland, Musician

"If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless"

Crystal Eastman, Lawyer

"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers, which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"Then my mother was taken ill, and died, and my father took me to St. Mary's"

Desmond Dekker, Musician

"I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... That's motherhood"

Cass Elliot, Musician

"When I get a new script, my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical"

Alia Shawkat, Actress

"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger"

Casey Affleck, Actor

"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same"

Andy Roddick, Athlete

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard"

Al Lewis, Actor

"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history"

Angie Everhart, Model

"My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland"

Alan Hovhaness, Composer

"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife"

Anne Northup, Politician

"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it"

Kristin Scott Thomas, Actress

"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness"

Jack Osbourne, Celebrity

"She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother"

Prince Andrew, Royalty

"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too"

Prince Andrew, Royalty

"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre"

Leon Askin, Actor

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