--including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement…

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a…

— Edward P. Jones

I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.

— Viv Albertine

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.…

— Ben Okri

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself…

— Lights

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

Being a new mother is a blessing.

— Phaedra Parks

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

I'm the daughter of a Kenyan Catholic father and a Mauritian Hindu mother, and I have a Jewish husband who was born in South…

— Suella Braverman