Mother Quotes

• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Writing
  • Memory
  • Greek

• Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

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

  

  Celine Dion
  • Family
  • Success
  • Performing

• My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Dad

• I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Time
  • Country
  • Career

• One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Grandmother

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

  

  David Johansen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Irish

• I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Mother
  • Hollywood
  • Raised

• My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.

  

  Marv Levy
  • World
  • Great
  • She

• Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Mother
  • Single

• I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Thought

• I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

  

  James Heckman
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Father

• My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Me
  • Boy

• My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

  

  Billy Carter
  • She
  • Mother
  • Peace

• One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. When they had all come Tarzan turned toward them. 'I am Tarzan,' he cried. 'I am a great killer. Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware.'

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Respect

• The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Power
  • Today

• My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close. For as long as I can remember, we made Nana's waffles in my house. It was a weekend tradition.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Great
  • Long
  • She

• My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Myself
  • Cooking

• I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Balls

• My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Son
  • Honor

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