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Mother Quotes

"One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials."

Lauren Graham, American Actress

Mother, Idea, Care, Ladies

"I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

"My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later."

Natalie Wood, American Actress

"My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers."

Margaret O'Brien, American Actress

"I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!"

Peter Fonda, American Actor

Mother, Father, Thought

"I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Mother, People, Earth, Harmony

"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Mother, Sister, Brother, Europe

"I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school."

Bonnie Hunt, American Actress

Mother, Day, School

"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."

Marg Helgenberger, American Actress

Mother, Thought

"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college."

Roma Downey, Irish Actress

Mother, Father, College

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Love, Beauty

"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."

Marta Kristen, American Actress

Mother, Father, Philosophy, University

"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

Mother, Devil, Faces, Saying

"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids."

Dorothy Malone, American Actress

Mother, Hollywood, Kids

"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."

Judy Collins, American Musician

Mother, Father, Influence, Play

"I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me."

Curtis Jackson, American Musician

"If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

Mother, Father, Cooperation, Invention

"I am no mother, and I won't be one."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

Paul Simon, American Musician

"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her."

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

Mother, Sister, Opinions, Trouble

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."

Broderick Crawford, American Actor

"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."

James MacArthur, American Actor

"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."

John Calvin, French Theologian

"I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker."

Les Paul, American Musician

"Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?"

Ed Sullivan, American Entertainer

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Mother, Mothers, Old

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

Christopher Durang, American Playwright

Mother, Father, Thought, Profession

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Behavior, Years

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Being, Disaster

"This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford."

Jennifer Lopez, American Musician

Mother, Career, Man, Now

"Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful."

Joanna Lumley, English Actress

Mother, Being, Joy

"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me."

Sally Field, American Actress

Mother, Son, Being, College

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor

"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country."

Sela Ward, American Actress

Mother, People, Care, Community

"My mother is a walking miracle."

Leonardo DiCaprio, American Actor

Mother, Walking

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."

Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman

Mother, Land, Will, World

"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."

Julie Walters, British Actress

"When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going."

Cicely Tyson, American Actress

"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."

Mira Sorvino, American Actress

Mother, Friend, Party, Play

"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, American Actress

Mother, Living, Pretty, Theatre

"You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this."

Morris Dees, American Lawyer

"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

Mother, Daughter, Tongue

"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

"You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self."

Bede Griffiths, British Clergyman

Mother, Father, Wife, Children

"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"

Joan Rivers, American Comedian

Mother, Hell, Property

"My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

King George V, British Royalty

Mother, Father, Children

"Ignorance is the mother of all evils."

Francois Rabelais, French Clergyman

Mother, Ignorance

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