Mother Quotes

• My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Christopher Judge
  • She
  • Proud
  • Inspiration

• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Mother
  • Deep
  • Electricity

• I realized how much she dedicated her life to making me a somebody . . . Because of this, I'm very proud I did what I did. What I eventually became justified my mother's hard work, dedication and sacrifices. So, although I was propelled and pushed toward a life on camera, because of the pride and happiness my mother felt, I was happy too . . . for a while.

  

  Anne Shirley
  • Mother
  • Proud
  • Sacrifices

• I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Home

• You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that.

  

  Michael Lee Aday
  • Mother
  • Dog
  • Cat

• I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • World
  • Mother
  • Peace

• I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Great
  • Job
  • Parents

• I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

  

  Jack London
  • God
  • Mother
  • Class

• Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Work
  • Daughter
  • Passionate

• I was a mother's boy.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Mother
  • Boy

• My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

  

  Dawn French
  • People
  • Mother

• Call it a coincidence, but my mother used to feel that I bear some resemblance to Poonam Dhillon.

  

  Krystle D'Souza
  • Mother

• My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Home
  • Career

• I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Mother
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Old

• I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Mother

• In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends - who knew about my upbringing - I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Me
  • Dad

• It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Mother

• My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.

  

  Dario Argento
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Mother
  • Fear

• You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

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