Because wherever I am today I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course two very special women my mother and my wife.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman without a husband.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

In search of my mother's garden I found my own.

Healthy children are born from healthy respected well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world of character my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

To me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair almost entirely of our future as a people.

Girls are the future mothers of our society and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child so I'm trying to back off but it's hard. I love him so much and he's so funny and cute to me.

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny very verbal very clever very witty.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is.

But based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

When I was growing up my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is) and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on freedom of speech but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.