189 Movie Quotes about Mothers (+ Sound Clips) - page 18

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about mothers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

171 That kid's richer than my mother.

Don Taylor as James Dunbar in Stalag 17 (1953)

172 How are you socially? -Nothing much there either. -You mean to say that your mother wasn't even a whoosis? -Nope.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case; Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)

173 Mother, why do you push yourself so hard? The money doesn't matter.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

174 Mother, I'm glad you could come. I've always been sorry you missed my wedding.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

175 That transmission... Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S.

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979)

176 You were never there for me, were you, Mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me. I'm the bastard son of Clair Huxtable!

Jim Carrey as Cable Guy in The Cable Guy (1996)

177 Say, where's Mother? -She's home, cooking the fatted calf.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

178 Well, Mother says the sun's coming up in 20 minutes.

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien (1979)

179 One of the guys made his mother do all the cookin'.

Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Casino (1995)

180 It's sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son, but I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder.

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960)