Famous Quotes

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

Jessica Lange on Mom

More quotes about Mom

• "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

  George Washington on Mom

• "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

  Mark Twain on Mom

• "Men are what their mothers made them."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom

• "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

  Pablo Picasso on Mom

• "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."

  Aristotle on Mom

More quotes by Jessica Lange

• "At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."

• "TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't."

• "All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment."

• "Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes."

• "At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."