
"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important."
Elle Macpherson
"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important."
Elle Macpherson"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"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me."
Diego Maradona
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
Sophia Loren"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Honore de Balzac
"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."
Lauryn Hill"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
Alice Walker"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
Jessica Lange
"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
Arianna Huffington"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
E. M. Forster
"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."
Denzel Washington"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
Alice Walker
"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."
Carly Fiorina"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
Erma Bombeck"Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves."
Charles Stanley
"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
Erma Bombeck
"I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son."
Charlize Theron"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."
Maxim Gorky"My mom told me I could do anything I want, be anyone I want. I believed it. And so I want my daughters to as well."
Anna Gunn
"I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can."
Tichina Arnold
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
Aristotle"My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids."
Olga Kurylenko"My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!"
Ashley Graham
"I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother."
Jenna Fischer"My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player."
Luke Rockhold"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values."
Al Sharpton"Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory."
Bayley"Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him."
Fred Armisen
"My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema."
Dan Schulman"Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan."
Lisa Joy
"My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid."
Ksenia Solo
"My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes."
Allison Williams"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."
Camille Paglia
"My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal."
Lorde"For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music."
Moby"My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures. -Yahya Abdul"
Mateen II
"I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it."
Harshvardhan Rane"My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me."
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