Respect My Mother Quotes

#1. When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

Rodney Dangerfield

#2. My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.

Lionel Suggs

#3. Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

Sara Sheridan

#4. What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

Barbara Delinsky

#5. My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

George Emil Palade

#6. My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.

James Woods

#7. The day will never come in when I lose enough respect for my own hide to shit on a Texan's mother, Stuart.

Stephen King

#8. I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

Beyonce Knowles

#9. I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Neymar

#10. My mother, she made sure all of us were treated the same and had the same opportunity to grow and develop, so that when we left the house, we could fly on our own. And she also knew when we got out into the world, we'd treat others that we came across with that same treatment and respect.

Michael Franti

#11. My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

David LaChapelle

#12. I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

Glenn Close

#13. My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#14. How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled with tight control, and she gasped, stung. "I have no respect for you, Theresa, not even as the potential mother of my child, because, quite frankly, you can't even do that right.

Natasha Anders

#15. Life was brutal for her. She hated the heat and the dust - the lack of friendship and lack of respect from other women
who knew she was a Christian. She hated the monster my father had become.

Brian Arthur Levene

#16. I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Cate Blanchett

#17. My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

Tupac Shakur

#18. I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

Britney Spears

#19. I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Campbell Scott

#20. When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark ...

Rodney Dangerfield

#21. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

#22. Mother Earth, one of my absolute favorite places ... where the sounds, the energy, the beauty and the Life pounds into your every fiber of being, letting you Know that you are alive. I will always respect and honor this gift of creation that we call our home.

Peace Gypsy

#23. I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am.

Mr. T

#24. My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities ... and the will to grasp them.

Alice Walker

#25. I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.

Faith Hill

#26. John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

Mary Doria Russell

#27. I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Mike Epps

#28. Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.

Kay Honeyman

#29. I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Mr. T

#30. I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

Solange Knowles

#31. I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

Ryan Gosling

#32. I will respect you like you were my sister or my mother but inspire and love you like
you were a queen.

The Prolific Penman

#33. My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

Joanna Lumley

#34. I get no respect ... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother

Rodney Dangerfield

#35. My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication.

Annabelle R. Charbit

#36. My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Jared Leto