Quotes About Mother

My mother was a great influence in my life and my career. She not only helped me master the business side of radio, but she also taught me how to conduct myself.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

My mother worked for Confederation of Indian Industry, and Aptech Computers.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born.

I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.

I only survived because of my mother's love and care.

I've learnt to separate the woman who was my mother from the person who was a movie star. The star has survived, my mother didn't.

My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

My mother always wanted me to be in the best environment that I could be in. She wanted me to go to the best schools. Every now and again she'd save up enough for us to get a nice apartment in downtown Chicago, but we were never able to sustain it.

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.

My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's great having them around.

My mum took me to swimming lessons when I was very young, four years old.

Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

Once, in third grade, we switched classes and nobody knew until our mother stepped in.