Best mother & mom Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.”

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“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.”

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Author:Booboo Stewart

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

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Author:Tarsem Singh

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

“I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”

Source: I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings

“I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.”

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Author:Renita J. Weems

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.”

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Author:Annette Funicello

“How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.”

Ifs Children Matter Mother Language Mom Conversation Outcomes What Matters Infant Initiate

Author:Po Bronson

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”

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Author:Richard Codey

“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.”

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Author:A. E. Coppard

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

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Author:Emily Oster

“I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.”

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Author:Karisma Kapoor

“I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!”

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Author:John Kapelos

“A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“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.”

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Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is kind of like a strong mother. Like when your mom says like, "put that down!" you know that is coming from a place of both love and strength. And at this critical stage in human history we need both action and caring.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”

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Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.”

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Book:What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life

Source: What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life

“In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Jeb Bush's brother Neil said that their mother has 'come around' to the idea of Jeb running for president in 2016. Because if there's anything that says you're qualified to be president, it's your own mom saying, 'I guess you could do it.'”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”

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Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.”

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Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.”

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.”

“[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.”

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Author:Lindsay Davenport

“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”

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Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't.”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.”

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Author:Andrea Tantaros

“I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.”

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Author:Linda Sunshine

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

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Author:Susan J. Douglas

“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.”

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Author:Andrew Gross

“My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.”

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Author:Carla Hall

“My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.”

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Author:Regina King

“There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.”

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Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.”

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Author:Kim Raver

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