Famous Movie Quotes: Movies About Moms for Mother’s Day
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Many movies have chronicled the joy and pain of being a mom — and often both extremes are portrayed in the same movie. The following selection of movies are perfect for Mother’s Day: They’ll take you up, then down and back up again, and with any luck, they’ll leave you with a renewed appreciation for the institution of motherhood.
Baby Boom
1987
Starring Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard
110 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“I can’t have a baby because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting.”
Terms of Endearment
1983
Starring Shirley McLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
132 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“You don’t know how lucky you are, you know. Everybody wants to go to Des Moines. People come from all over the world just to get one look at Des Moines before they die.”
Mother
1996
Starring Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds
104 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
After eating very old orange sherbet from his mother’s freezer: “Blaaah! Oh God, this is horribly old! This tastes like an orange foot!”
The Joy Luck Club
1993
Starring Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Ming-Na Wen, Lauren Tom
139 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“That bad crab, only you tried to take it. Everybody else want best quality. You, your thinking different. Waverly took best-quality crab. You took worst, because you have best-quality heart. You have style no one can teach. Must be born this way.”
Erin Brockovich
2000
Starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney
130 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“Are you going to be something else that I have to survive? Because, to tell you the truth, I’m not up to it.”
Stepmom
1998
Staring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris
Rated PG-13 for language and thematic elements
124 min
Memorable quote from the movie:
“You didn’t asked me if I wanted a new mother. You didn’t even asked me if I liked her!”
Parenthood
1989
Starring Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Harley Jane Kozak
124 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“I wouldn’t live with you if the world were flooded with piss and you lived in a tree!”
Hope Floats
1998
Starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands
114 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“Once upon a time your mama knew what it meant to shine.”
Steel Magnolias
1989
Starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard, Dylan McDermott
117 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“Well, you know what they say: if you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!”
The Goodbye Girl
1977
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
111 minutes
Memorable quote from the movie:
“If you were a Broadway musical, people would be humming your face.”
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Mothers Day?
Darn it Carla – you scared me – thought I had forgot it … again! Um, just so I have this right – it is next month? Right? (I hope or I need a new calendar)
It’s May 11. I’ll send you an e-mail that you can keep in your inbox to remind you!