Mother Quotes

• My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Why

• As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Hugging

• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Angel

• Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • God
  • Believe
  • Attention

• I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Mother

• My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented... she's everything that I want to be.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • She
  • Strong

• The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Perfect

• My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Women
  • School
  • Art

• Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

  

  Jean Alesi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Good
  • Family
  • Mother

• I was a child of the women's movement. Everything I had learned was from my mother and my grandmother, who both had a very pioneering spirit. They had to, because they had to change flat tires and paint the house - because, you know, the men didn't come home from the war or whatever else, so women had to do these things.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • She
  • Teacher
  • Anchor

• Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Die

• I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • She
  • Mother
  • Today

• Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Mother
  • Father

• We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S.

  

  Sonita Alizadeh
  • Father
  • Died
  • Raised

• We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • Mother

• There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Book
  • Together
  • Pretty

• My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she was fiercely protective of her younger brother, with whom she shared a passion for jazz and rock and roll.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Up
  • Money
  • She

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