All Quotes

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
‐‐ Jaclyn Smith

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

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I'd send away for movie magazines - the old thing of everybody wanting to be a star or whatever.
‐‐ Anne Meara

My mother loved the Bible.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.
‐‐ Judy Gold

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
‐‐ Ang Lee

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.
‐‐ Stella Young

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches.
‐‐ Alice Waters

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.
‐‐ Ernest Borgnine

My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of prodding five children to practice every day, she kept me practicing despite my whining.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

My mother made me truly appreciate women.
‐‐ Drake

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.
‐‐ Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.
‐‐ Brian Cox

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
‐‐ Mark Strong

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.
‐‐ Marie Osmond

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
‐‐ Maria Karnilova

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
‐‐ Dolores Huerta

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.
‐‐ Jesse Metcalfe

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

My mother never really thought I could become anything.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

My mother never took my hand.
‐‐ Violette Leduc

My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.
‐‐ Stephane Hessel

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
‐‐ Laura Dern

My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
‐‐ Luanne Rice

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.
‐‐ Paul Coffey

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.
‐‐ Joie Lee

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
‐‐ Ice T

My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz