Family: Mother Quotes

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"All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"I preferred sewing to bossing little children"

Mother Jones, Activist

"Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me"

Meryl Streep, Actress

Meryl Streep

"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

Anna Freud

"For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains"

Katharine Anthony, Writer

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around, and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem"

William Petersen, Actor

"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds"

Hilary Duff, Actress

Hilary Duff

"Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals"

Ann Oakley, Sociologist

Ann Oakley

"And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on"

Lisa Snowdon, Model

"Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger"

Anders Zorn, Artist

"Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee"

Renee Zellweger, Actress

"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes"

Amy Tan, Novelist

Amy Tan

"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day"

Amy Tan, Novelist

Amy Tan

"How can you justify your being as a man if a woman is not at the center of it? Who brought you into this life?"

Angélique Kidjo, Musician

Angélique Kidjo

"I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job"

Barbara Billingsley, Actress

"A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world"

Jerry Lewis, Comedian

"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian"

Rachel Blanchard, Actress

"Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it"

Victoria Billings, Journalist

"A boy's best friend is his mother"

Joseph Stefano, Writer

"I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor"

Sonia Sotomayor, Judge

"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech'"

Tom Hooper, Director

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Better a serpent than a stepmother!"

Euripides, Poet

Euripides

"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"A mother who is really a mother is never free"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

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