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Mother Quotes

It is Mother’s Day and only then you think you should make your mother feel special. Why not think of her all days of the year? A mother is someone who has given her whole life to taking care of her children. A mother is one who looks beyond colour, race, body, culture and religion when it comes her little one. It is said the one the most precious feelings in the world is being a mother. That probably explains why a whopping 82% of women are mothers in the United States, despite the high divorce and low marriage rates! Read some loving quotations and sayings about moms.

Kamala Harris

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

Things
Kamala Harris
Henry Cavill

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

Funding Management
Henry Cavill
Adam Sandler

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Wedding Right
Adam Sandler
Kimberly Guilfoyle

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.

Death
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Catherine Oxenberg

My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me.

Catherine Oxenberg
Agatha Christie

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Opinion Troubles
Agatha Christie
Uma Thurman

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

Love
Uma Thurman
Rachael Leigh Cook

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Fathers
Rachael Leigh Cook
Kangana Ranaut

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

Fathers
Kangana Ranaut
George H. W. Bush

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

George H. W. Bush
Vin Diesel

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

World
Vin Diesel
Prince Harry

I hope that a lot of my mother's talents are shown in a lot of the work that I do.

Work Hope
Prince Harry
Prince Andrew

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.

Prince Andrew
Isla Fisher

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

Accomplishment
Isla Fisher
Rhea Chakraborty

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

Home
Rhea Chakraborty
Jason Bateman

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

Reason
Jason Bateman
Catherine Oxenberg

Mother was engaged briefly to Richard Burton years ago and did a tiny part with him in the film 'Jackpot.'

Catherine Oxenberg
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Kevin Hart

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Kevin Hart
Michael Sheen

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Poetry Confidence
Michael Sheen
Prince Andrew

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

Prince Andrew
Kate Walsh

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

Family
Kate Walsh
Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

Humor Affection Philosophy Concerned
Thomas Hobbes
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Self-Reliance
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Zlatan Ibrahimovic

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

Fathers
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Maya Rudolph

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Maya Rudolph
Henry Thomas

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

Family
Henry Thomas
Tyler Perry

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

Short
Tyler Perry
Tracee Ellis Ross

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Tracee Ellis Ross
Gary Oldman

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

Gary Oldman
Rafael Nadal

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

Home
Rafael Nadal
Jason Momoa

I grew up with a single mother, and I wasn't out shooting too many guns.

Pistol
Jason Momoa
Princess Anne

She's my mother and the Queen.

Princess Anne
Bette Midler

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Beauty People
Bette Midler
Jessica Alba

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

Jessica Alba
Maya Rudolph

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

Maya Rudolph
Ralph Fiennes

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Life
Ralph Fiennes
Judy Davis

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Judy Davis
Martin Scorsese

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Food Restaurants
Martin Scorsese

I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.

Gal Gadot
Sarah Paulson

My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.

Sarah Paulson
Meryl Streep

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Parenting
Meryl Streep
Prince Harry

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

Fathers
Prince Harry

Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

Love Mother’s Day Affection Appreciation
John Greenleaf Whittier
Johnny Cash

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

Guitar
Johnny Cash
Chris Rock

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

Chris Rock
Kamala Harris

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

Kamala Harris
Blake Lively

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Love
Blake Lively
Liv Tyler

I am scared of becoming a mother.

Liv Tyler
Prince Harry

All I want to do is make my mother incredibly proud. That's all I've ever wanted to do.

Prince Harry
Marie Antoinette

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Heart
Marie Antoinette
Amber Heard

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

Daughters
Amber Heard
Tonya Harding

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

Army
Tonya Harding
Walter Winchell

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Love Mother’s Day Affection People
Walter Winchell
Eudora Welty

When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

Love Mother’s Day Affection Childhood
Eudora Welty
Courteney Cox

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

Courteney Cox
Kamala Harris

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

Time
Kamala Harris
Liza Minnelli

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

Good
Liza Minnelli
Bill Skarsgard

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

Doctor Education Parents
Bill Skarsgard
Jack Whitehall

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Jack Whitehall
Gwyneth Paltrow

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Girl Living
Gwyneth Paltrow
Eva Green

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

Time
Eva Green
John F. Kennedy Jr.

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

Business
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Sarah Paulson

All of my friends went to college, and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller.

Jobs Pizza
Sarah Paulson
Susan Wojcicki

Paid leave is a not just a mother and child issue, it's a societal issue we have.

Susan Wojcicki
Marie Antoinette

My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.

Things
Marie Antoinette
Jason Bateman

My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.

Jason Bateman
Elizabeth Taylor

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

Baby Courage Strength
Elizabeth Taylor
Kiara Advani

If my mother was taking pictures, I never wanted her to take the camera off me, ever. When I look at my videos from when I was even just two, I would be playing ballerina.

Kiara Advani
Milla Jovovich

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Childhood Style
Milla Jovovich
Michael Jackson

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Perfection
Michael Jackson
Jane Fonda

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

Good
Jane Fonda
Anne Heche

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

Fathers
Anne Heche
Carla Gugino

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

Fathers
Carla Gugino
Matt Damon

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Childhood Education
Matt Damon
Prince William

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

Fun
Prince William
Alicia Vikander

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

Life
Alicia Vikander
Kamala Harris

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Kamala Harris
O. J. Simpson

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

Death
O. J. Simpson
Mike Tyson

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

Mike Tyson
Tia Mowry

On Mother's Day, I like to feel pampered. I like to feel celebrated. I like to feel honored. I like to feel glamorous.

Tia Mowry
Giancarlo Esposito

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

Race Fathers
Giancarlo Esposito
Gary Oldman

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

Gary Oldman
Hank Williams

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

Hank Williams
Drake

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Women
Drake
Curtis Jackson

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

Curtis Jackson
Prince Harry

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

Prince Harry
Mahesh Babu

We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

School Home
Mahesh Babu
John F. Kennedy Jr.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

Life
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Rhea Chakraborty

When it comes to opportunities, your father or mother can only set up a meeting for you. However, your opportunities will only materialise if the star kid is talented or suits the role.

Fathers
Rhea Chakraborty
Sharon Stone

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Sharon Stone
Dick Cheney

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Dick Cheney
Madonna Ciccone

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

Madonna Ciccone
David Blaine

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

Growing Up
David Blaine
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

Life Luck
Jennifer Love Hewitt

I started drawing when I was about 2, mostly pictures of my mother and my sister. When I got into school, instead of taking the notes that I should have been taking, I was drawing in all of my notebooks. It was an artwork thing for me at first.

School
Megan Fox
A. R. Rahman

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

A. R. Rahman
Whitney Houston

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

Whitney Houston
Tyler Perry

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

Growing Up
Tyler Perry
Phil Jackson

My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.

Work
Phil Jackson