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Mother Quotes

"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."

Colin Firth, British Actor

Mother, America

"Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism."

Jessi Colter, American Musician

"I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much."

Janine Turner, American Actress

"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

Etta James, American Musician

Mother, Jazz, Play

"I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?"

Sam Sheppard, American Scientist

Mother, Now, Question

"My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

Mother, Father, English, Houses

"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, Canadian Musician

Mother, Church, Children, Cooking

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."

Jane Birkin, English Actress

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."

Mary Kay Blakely, American Author

Mother, May, School

"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."

Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Scientist

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

Linda Lavin, American Actress

"I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience."

Jayne Meadows, American Actress

"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

Mother, Father, Engineering, English

"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."

Prince William, British Royalty

Mother, Destiny, Future, Job

"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."

Shimon Peres, Israeli Statesman

Mother, Brother, Taste

"Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me."

Little Richard, American Musician

Mother, Attention, Company

"My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas."

Kary Mullis, American Scientist

Mother, Brothers, Christmas

"I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Mother, Friend, Nothing, Want

"My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra."

Angie Dickinson, American Actress

"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.""

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

Mother, Brother, Past

"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."

Elayne Boosler, American Comedian

Mother, Mothers

"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Anxiety, Attention, Suicide

"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked."

Elizabeth Taylor, English Actress

Mother, Eyes, First, Open

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Mother, Children

"I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue."

William Tyndale, English Clergyman

Mother, Truth, People, Eyes

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."

Lauryn Hill, American Musician

Mother, Son, Living, Reality

"If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?"

Charles Pierce, American Entertainer

"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."

Mariska Hargitay, American Actress

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

Tina Turner, American Musician

Mother, Church, Rivers

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."

Kenny Loggins, American Musician

"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."

Julie Walters, British Actress

Mother, Being, Children, Pain

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

Rachel Blanchard, Canadian Actress

Mother, American

"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."

Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor

"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Mother, Being, Pets

"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."

Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

Marie Antoinette, French Royalty

Mother, Wife, HusbBlood, Children

"Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

Mother, Day, Taste, Turkeys

"My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that."

Alan Alda, American Actor

"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, American Actress

Mother, Being, Housewife, Interest

"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."

Alison Lohman, American Actress

Mother, Daughter

"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother."

Claudette Colbert, French Actress

Mother, Grandparents

"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx."

Cy Coleman, American Composer

Mother, Old, Years

"At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers."

Kathleen Turner, American Actress

Mother, Mothers, Play

"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."

Jack Bowman, English Actor

Mother, Heart, America, Medicine

"I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children."

Steven Tyler, American Musician

Mother, Father, Being, Chaos

"My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered."

Gene Kelly, American Actor

Mother, Idea, Dancing, Job

"It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that."

Sharon Stone, American Actress

Mother, Father, Individuality

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

Mother, Sister, Brother, School

"Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit."

Sonia Taitz, American Author

Mother, Spiritual

"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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