Mother Quotes

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

~ Ryan White

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

~ Bruno Mars

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

~ Camille Paglia

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

~ Erma Bombeck

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

~ Erich Fromm

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

~ Arianna Huffington

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

~ David Ortiz

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

~ Washington Irving

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

~ Al Lewis

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

~ Queen Latifah

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

~ Barbara Bush

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

~ Claudette Colbert

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

~ Richard J. Codey

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

~ Regina King

I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

~ Nate Berkus

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

~ Kate Winslet

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

~ Brie Larson

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.

~ Prince

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

~ Gillian Jacobs

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

~ Chuck Norris

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

~ Brigitte Bardot

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

~ Carol Burnett

There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'

~ Albert Brooks

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

~ Jane Fonda

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

~ Ben Affleck

My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

~ Aerin Lauder

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

~ Celine Dion

I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a mother and daughter, a teenage girl and her mom, to be able to come to the show and both enjoy it on the same level.

~ Brett Young

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

~ Christie Hefner

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

~ Emma Bonino

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

~ Ed Bradley

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

~ Della Reese

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

~ Kim Raver

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

~ Arnold Bennett

I am truly my mother's son.

~ David Geffen

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

~ Andy Partridge

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

~ Buck Owens