Quotes about Moms

Rhett Butler: A cat's a better mother than you.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Bianca Bates: Why didn't you tell them I'm their new mother?
Nick Arden: Didn't I do that??? Oh well, I didn't want to confuse them.

- Cary Grant (as Nick Arden) in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Charlotte: Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.

- Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) in Now, Voyager (1942)

Charlotte: I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.

- Bette Davis (as Charlotte Vale) in Now, Voyager (1942)

Sugar: If my mother could only see me now.
Josephine (Joe): I hope my mother never finds out.

- Tony Curtis (as Joe/Josephine) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Cody Jarrett: Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

- James Cagney (as Cody Jarrett) in White Heat (1949)

Marion Crane: Do you go out with friends?
Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) in Psycho (1960)

Eleanor: I am locked up with my sons. What mother does not dream of that?

- Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter (1968)

[Harold ripped a pillow playing with the dog]
Amelia: Those were my mother's feathers!
Harold: Never knew your mother had feathers.

- W.C. Fields (as Harold Bissonette) in It's a Gift (1934)

Mr. Tuerck: Women are always trying to take the blame for men - it's what you call the mother instinct.

- Emory Parnell (as Mr. Tuerck) in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)