Subject: Family » Mothers

You know how growing up we all had that voice inside our head that tells us we’re not good enough? Well, mine was outside my head driving me to school.

(1970 – ) American actress

I don’t visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won’t wait in the yard while I run in.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

I know how to do anything — I’m a mom.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

Do me a favor; when you get home, throw your mother a bone.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Rich people bring a lawyer; Latinos and blacks bring their moms.

(1976 – ) comedian

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

He would kill his own mother just so that he could use her skin to make a drum to beat his own praises.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

Raised by two mothers? … Wow, most of us barely survive one.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

So, I’m licking jelly off my boyfriend… and all of a sudden I’m thinking… oh, my God, I’m turning into my mother.

(1970 – ) American comedian, writer & actress

One time my whole family played hide and seek; they found my mother in Pittsburgh!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist Cathy

My mother said it was simple to keep a man: you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom; I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.

(1956 – ) American model & actress

There are only two things a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and his mother’s age.

(1903 – 1998) American pediatrician & author

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

How do I explain her? [her mother] She’s as respected as Mother Theresa, she’s as powerful as Stalin, and she’s as beautiful as Margaret Thatcher.

(1971 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

I get on very well with my parents, give or take my mother.

English comedian & actor