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

Prince Andrew

Royalty · British · b. 1960

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Marcel Carne

Director · French · 1906 – 1996

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

Beatrice Wood

Artist · American · 1893 – 1998

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

Carlisle Floyd

Composer · American · b. 1926

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Susie Bright

Writer · American · b. 1958

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Nora Ephron

Author · American · b. 1941

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Shimon Peres

Statesman · Israeli · b. 1923

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President · American · 1908 – 1973

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Thomas Keneally

Novelist · Australian · b. 1935

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.

Michael D. Barnes

Politician · American · b. 1943

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

Jim Hightower

Activist · American · b. 1943

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Ernst Toller

Playwright · German · 1893 – 1939

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Francois Rabelais

Clergyman · French · d. 1553

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Alison Bechdel

Cartoonist · American · b. 1960

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Margaret Carlson

Journalist · American

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

Robert Mondavi

Businessman · American · 1913 – 2008

Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.

Merrill Markoe

Author

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

George III

Royalty · English · 1738 – 1820

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

Poet · Scottish · 1874 – 1958

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

David Antin

Poet · American · b. 1932

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

Artist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Peter Abrahams

Novelist · South African · b. 1919

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

Sally Quinn

Journalist · American · b. 1941

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

Robert Mondavi

Businessman · American · 1913 – 2008

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Marc Morial

Politician · American · b. 1958

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

Satish Kumar

Activist · Indian

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Rita Dove

Poet · American · b. 1952

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Frederick Sanger

Scientist · English · b. 1918

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

Morris Dees

Lawyer · American · b. 1936

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Politician · American · b. 1967

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

Lisa Guerrero

Journalist · American · b. 1964

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Author · American · 1879 – 1958

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

Linda McCartney

Photographer · American · 1941 – 1998

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

Edvard Munch

Artist · Norwegian · 1863 – 1944

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Jerry Weller

Politician · American · b. 1957

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Scientist · English · 1921 – 1996

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Christopher Marlowe

Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1593

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

Agnes Macphail

Politician · Canadian · 1890 – 1954

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

Poet · British · b. 1949

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Amar Bose

Inventor · American · b. 1929

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Diogenes

Philosopher · Greek

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Laurence Sterne

Novelist · Irish · 1713 – 1768

Thank God for your mother.

David O. Selznick

Producer · American · 1902 – 1965

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

George J. Mitchell

Politician · American · b. 1933

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

Author · American · b. 1944

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Harold Brodkey

Author · American · 1930 – 1996

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Michael Eisner

Businessman · American · b. 1942

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