Family: Mother Quotes

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"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image"

David Bowie, Musician

David Bowie

"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

"Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

Paul Lynde

"I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

Monica Lewinsky

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage, nor the love the enforcement"

Germaine Greer, Activist

Germaine Greer

"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"My mother insisted that her children read"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

Jimmy Buffett

"Of course, it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Life on the planet is born of woman"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love"

Stevie Wonder, Musician

Stevie Wonder

"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

Katharine Hepburn

"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse"

Rebecca West, Author

"I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up"

Adam Sandler, Actor

Adam Sandler

"My mother answers all my fan mail"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there"

Agnes Macphail, Politician

"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly)"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

"I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother"

Cher, Musician

Cher

"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked"

Eminem, Musician

Eminem

"What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

Shia LaBeouf

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

Diego Maradona

"I punched my mother out once"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"I loved my mother, she's a good girl"

Charles Manson, Criminal

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