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Mother Quotes

"Getting caught is the mother of invention."

Robert Byrne, American Celebrity

Mother, Invention

"I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true."

Louise Fletcher, American Actress

Mother, Father, Dream, Teaching

"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante."

Debi Mazar, American Actress

Mother, Friend, Management, Being

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."

Wynonna Judd, American Musician

"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."

Jackie Kennedy, American First Lady

Mother, Wife, First, Lady

"As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show."

Randy West, American Entertainer

"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."

Karen Carpenter, American Musician

"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."

Julie Christie, British Actress

Mother, Being, Responsibility

"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect."

Roseanne Barr, American Actress

Mother, People, Being, Hell

"I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person."

Lisa Kudrow, American Actress

Mother, Acting, Body, Effort

"When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son."

Ellen Barkin, American Actress

Mother, Son, Eyes

"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

Mother, Dancing, Night, Party

"My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes."

Eva Gabor, Hungarian Actress

Mother, HusbFirst, Wishes

"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."

Etta James, American Musician

Mother, Thought

"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

"Necessity, the mother of invention."

George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist

Mother, Invention, Necessity

"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled."

Tom Berenger, American Actor

Mother, Father, Sister, Windows

"Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away."

Sheryl Lee, American Actor

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

Alicia Keys, American Musician

Mother, Reading, Theater

"You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico."

Jennifer Esposito, American Actress

Mother, Father, Geography, Want

"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Mother, Mothers, Old, Opinions

"My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working."

Dean Stockwell, American Actor

Mother, Children

"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Mother, People, Name, Nations

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

Pat Brown, American Entertainer

Mother, Children, Struggle

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem."

William Petersen, American Actor

Mother, Father, Animals, Being

"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."

Sheena Easton, Scottish Musician

Mother, Achievement

"I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent."

Bernie Worrell, American Musician

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."

Elizabeth Taylor, English Actress

Mother, Courage, Baby

"I punched my mother out once."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."

Eva Herzigova, Czechoslovakian Model

Mother, Father, Company

"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

Mother, Girls, Miracles, Ugly

"But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted."

Mercedes Ruehl, American Actress

Mother, Being, Example, News

"My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing."

Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist

Mother, Effect, Now, Play

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."

Jane Birkin, English Actress

Mother, Nothing, Reading

"My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable."

Jennifer Jones, American Actress

"You're not famous until my mother has heard of you."

Jay Leno, American Comedian

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

Missy Elliot, American Musician

"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there."

Kitty Carlisle, American Musician

Mother, Thought, People, Hollywood

"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

Mother, Vocabulary

"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

Mother, Father, Ecstasy

"I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through."

James Cagney, American Actor

"Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy."

Patsy Cline, American Musician

Mother, Wife, Driving

"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping."

Patricia Heaton, American Actress

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."

Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer

Mother, Children, Language

"I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

Mother, Care, Navy

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

Mother, Children

"It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother."

Charles Pierce, American Entertainer

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

"Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer."

Frederick Sanger, English Scientist

Mother, Daughter, Support

"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

Mother, Thought, First, Help

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