My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
‐‐ Tom Heinsohn
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni
My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.
‐‐ Louis Bacon
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.
‐‐ Julianne Moore
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
‐‐ Rita Rudner
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
‐‐ Sonny Rollins
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
‐‐ David Dinkins
My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.
‐‐ LZ Granderson
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
‐‐ David Frum
My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
‐‐ Philip Levine
My mother certainly doesn't think I'm charming!
‐‐ James Nesbitt
My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it's good music.
‐‐ Cyrille Aimee
My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes
My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.
‐‐ Michelle Huneven
My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.
‐‐ Cheryl Ladd
My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.
‐‐ Anna Pump
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
‐‐ Harry Mathews
My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
‐‐ Victor Garber
My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan
My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.
‐‐ Martin Dempsey
My mother danced; she loved the ballet.
‐‐ Stefanie Powers
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.
‐‐ Marco Rubio
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
‐‐ Celia Imrie
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
‐‐ Sam Donaldson
My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.
‐‐ Luke Evans
My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.
‐‐ Moon Unit Zappa
My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.
‐‐ Eva Green
My mother did not like children.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld
My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.
‐‐ Toni Tennille
My mother did what many men do. She left.
‐‐ Henning Mankell
My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
‐‐ Jade Jagger
My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
‐‐ Alan Alda
My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.
‐‐ Isabel Allende
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
‐‐ Donatella Versace
My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.
‐‐ Little Richard
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met the woman who would become the mother who raised me, before my younger sister, Gillian. It was just the two of us, and he was my whole world.
‐‐ John Lloyd Young
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
‐‐ Andrew Lo
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
‐‐ Karolyn Grimes
My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.
‐‐ Robert Webb
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
‐‐ Mara Wilson