Mother Quotes

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Lets ignore our mothers' well-meant advice.

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

I love my husband more than I love my children.

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on.

You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

Every Thursday or something, my mother would shoot it at NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. And sometimes she would have me there when Morris The Cat was on, and Lassie was on.