Mother Quotes

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

~ Steve Harvey

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

~ Bill O'reilly

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

~ Mike Nichols

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.

~ Ben Affleck

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

~ Juliette Binoche

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

~ Mickey Rourke

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

~ Katey Sagal

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

~ Randi Weingarten

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

~ Chuck Close

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

~ Anthony Browne

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

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

~ Clay Aiken

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

~ Ciaran Hinds

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

~ Robert Osborne

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

~ Dwight Yoakam

Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

~ John Sulston

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

~ Marilyn Hacker

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

~ Archie Panjabi

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

~ Simon Callow

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

~ Chesley Sullenberger

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

~ Saul Williams

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

~ Luanne Rice

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

~ Laverne Cox

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

~ Victor Hugo

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

~ Sophocles

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

~ George Eliot

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

~ Billy Sunday

My mother is a walking miracle.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

~ Gilbert Parker

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

~ Donald E. Westlake

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

~ Gracie Allen

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

~ Mandy Patinkin

My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that's what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I've gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.

~ Alek Wek

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

~ Yuvraj Singh