1,444 quotes
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.
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