Subject: Family » Mothers

I know if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Moms Who Drink and Swear

I live in a two-income household… but who knows how long my mom can keep that up.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer

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

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & 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

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.



The Good Mommies’ Guide To Raising (Almost) Perfect Daughters

I’ve been here eight months and have been in two earthquakes, a race riot, floods and fires, and I left New York because I couldn’t handle my mother.

comedian & television writer

Bernadette: Everyone’s a better mom than me.

(1981 – ) Indian-English actor

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them; my mother cleans them.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

English comedian & actor

Her mother was a cultivated women… she was born in a greenhouse.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

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

(1976 – ) comedian

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

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