Top Mother Quotes
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
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
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My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin 
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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama
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My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
Roberto Benigni
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
Aaron Klug
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Martin Short
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I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.
Jane Darwell
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette
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