All Quotes

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
‐‐ Joseph Altuzarra

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
‐‐ Mick Jagger

My mother has always encouraged me to do what I love. When I started being interested in fashion, she was very supportive, bringing me to see exhibits and buying me books. And when I started my company, she was right there to help me!
‐‐ Joseph Altuzarra

My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging about in wellies. Our family home is full of items from her travels and her amazing etchings and drawings.
‐‐ Alice Temperley

My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that's what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I've gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.
‐‐ Alek Wek

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik

My mother has battled breast cancer three times.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.
‐‐ Phillip Lim

My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
‐‐ H. Robert Horvitz

My mother has been an advocate for me as far as modeling goes.
‐‐ Margaret Qualley

My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
‐‐ Ram Shriram

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
‐‐ Jack Wagner

My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
‐‐ J. R. Martinez

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.
‐‐ Sheena Easton

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.
‐‐ Cheryl Ladd

My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'
‐‐ Allison Tolman

My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples, I think that, at this juncture, it is a story that just has to be believed.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
‐‐ Halle Berry

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
‐‐ Les Dawson

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.
‐‐ Les Dawson

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
‐‐ Les Dawson

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.
‐‐ Ann McLane Kuster

My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
‐‐ Les Dawson

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
‐‐ Les Dawson

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
‐‐ Patricia Heaton

My mother insisted that her children read.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.
‐‐ James MacArthur

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
‐‐ Debi Thomas

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
‐‐ Lake Bell

My mother is a beauty.
‐‐ Mary-Louise Parker

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my 'other' family in Africa, my other mother and father. I had totally forgotten that.
‐‐ Henry Selick