top of page
.png){kind=small}
Mother Quotes
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
58
"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."
47
"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them."
42
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
39
"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."
38
"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."
31
"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
26
"My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend."
24
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
24
"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist."
24
"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
22
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
19
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
16
"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."
16
"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."
15
"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."
15
"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
14
"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."
14
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
14
"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her."
14
"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."
13
"We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance."
13
"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
13
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
12
"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."
12
"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
12
"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
12
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
12
bottom of page