Family: Mother Quotes

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"In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know"

Dakota Fanning, Actress

"My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it"

Elton John, Musician

"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"

Paula Poundstone, Comedian

"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's"

Amanda Peet, Actress

"And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet"

Tyra Banks, Model

"It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too"

Tyra Banks, Model

"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful"

Lars von Trier, Director

"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver"

Joe Theismann, Athlete

"I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things, and if anybody did, I just would go crazy"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport, very"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago"

Dave Eggers, Writer

"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met"

Kelly Osbourne, Actress

"For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids"

Leslie Caron, Actress

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