Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.
Jennifer Saunders

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. Peter

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Ben Affleck

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
Celine Dion

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
James Brown

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
Tom Felton

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
Peter Steele

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
Halle Berry

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
Halle Berry

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
George Foreman

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
Patsy Cline

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
Patsy Cline