Quotes of: Mother Keyword

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Gail Parent

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Ginger Rogers

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Gloria Steinem

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Gene Tierney

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

Gene Tierney

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

Gabrielle Zevin

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

Hoagy Carmichael

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

Hilary Duff

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Hallie Ephron

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

Heber J. Grant

When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

James McCartney

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

Jesse Metcalfe

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.

Joshua Malina

My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.

Julianne Moore

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

John Muir

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

John Sununu

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

Jordin Sparks

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Judith Viorst

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Danny Aiello