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I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It's 'flip and flirty,' as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on made-to-order armor. My mother's armor. Armor that helped shield me from exclusion. Armor that helped shield me from inferiority.

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

My mother has always been the biggest inspiration in my life.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.

My mother was a seamstress, and my father was a livery-cab driver.

After I got drafted and got my bonus, I said to my mother, 'You're not going to work anymore, Mom.'

When my daughter went to school, her last name was mine. The school insisted that her father's name be added to hers, not her mother's. The fact that the mother kept her in her womb for nine months is forgotten. Women don't have an identity. She has her father's name today and will have her husband's tomorrow.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'