Family: Mother Quotes

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David Rockefeller, Businessman

"In my early days in Hollywood, I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history"

Anita Baker, Musician

"I am truly my mother's son"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it"

William Dean Howells, Author

"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more, and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most"

Kate Millett, Activist

"When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary, from Europe to the U.S"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life, one day, have the potential to be comic stories the next"

Nora Ephron, Author

"My mother's been married many, many times, and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you"

Nora Ephron, Author

"Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost!"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship"

Greg Louganis, Athlete

"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother"

Laura Dern, Actress

"I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Having children is what a woman is born for, really"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first"

Larry Bird, Coach

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters, woman is visibly the cause"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I keep fit by running after my three boys all day"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

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