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

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

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

I am truly my mother's son.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

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.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.