Mother Quotes

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

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

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

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

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.