若干关于母亲的名人名言：俺娘说世界上没有陌生人，只有还没认识的朋友（My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet）。 ——Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )，澳大利亚演员Barry Humphries扮演的一个角色
俺娘常常生我的气，我觉得她挺享受（My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it）。
——马克·吐温（Mark Twain，1835 - 1910)。美国作家
俺娘说要分清“成就”和“成功”的区别。她说，“成就是你自己通过刻苦学习和工作获得的成果。成功是别人对你的称赞，听上去舒服而已，别太满足太当回事。追求成就，忘掉成功吧！”My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' ——Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)，美国演员
妈妈从自己多年的体验中认识到，没有任何方法成为完美的妈妈，但是有100万种方法当一个好妈妈（The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one）。
——Jill Churchill （1943—）,美国作家
早晚有一天，我们中间的所有人都会引用妈妈的话做生活的箴言（Sooner or later we all quote our mothers）。
——Bern Williams，英国哲学家
很多年以前，俺娘告诉我说：“Elwood，在这个世界上，你要么机灵，要么愉快”。这么多年来，我一直挺机灵，不过我劝大家选择愉快（Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant）.——Mary Chase (1887 - 1973)，美国作家
我妈在世界上保护我，我爸拿世界吓唬我（My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it）。——Quentin Crisp（1908—1999） ，英国作家
我长大了，长相像俺爹、说话像俺爹、做派像俺爹、走路像俺爹、想法像俺爹——对俺爹的期待像俺娘（I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's walk - my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father）——Jules Feiffer (1929 - )，美国漫画家、作家
俺娘对做饭这件事的看法是：如果你努力工作、而且干得好，那么就有人替你干（做饭）了（What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you）—— Nora Ephron （1941—），美国电影导演、知名
博客 俺爹俺娘这45年来就为一件事情吵过架，这场（关于我的）架持续了43年了（My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years）。
——Cathy Ladman ，美国演员、作家
母亲不是一个可以依赖的人，而是一个使依赖成为不必要的人（A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary）。——Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958)，美国作家
俺娘告诉我说，如果你当兵，你会成为将军；如果你当牧师，你会成为教皇。可惜，我当了艺术家，我的名字叫毕加索。（My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso）。
——毕加索Pablo Piccaso，法国画家
给俺爹打电话，俺娘太忙（Call my dad, my mom's too busy）。 ——切尔西·克林顿，美国总统克林顿的女儿（上学时有一次学校的护士告诉她吃某阿司匹林需要父母的许可时说了这句话）Chelsea Clinton, when the school nurse told her parental permission would be necessary for her to take some aspirin.
没有了爱，还有公正；
没有了公正，还有力量；
没有了力量，还有俺娘。
妈妈，母亲节快乐！
(When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom! )
——Laurie Anderson （1847—），美国演员
