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
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres
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
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My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
Eliza Dushku 
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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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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
Marc Davis
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