All Quotes

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
‐‐ Danny Aiello

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.
‐‐ Michelle Trachtenberg

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
‐‐ Janet Suzman

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used to be able to look at a picture of an outfit and just start cutting the fabric right there.
‐‐ Francisco Costa

My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
‐‐ Caitlin Flanagan

My mother was very protective of her four boys.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
‐‐ Alice Walker

My mother was very, very critical of my early efforts. She was, like, 'At your age, the Brontes were doing X, Y, and Z.'
‐‐ Nell Zink

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
‐‐ George Foreman

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
‐‐ Valorie Curry

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.
‐‐ Diane Keaton

My mother wasn't a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she'd tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.
‐‐ Christine Ebersole

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
‐‐ R. Kelly

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive.
‐‐ Rose George

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.
‐‐ Billy Carter

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
‐‐ Mackenzie Phillips

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
‐‐ Chuck D

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams

My mother, when I told her I was going into the jewelry business said, 'Kenneth, don't tell anyone.'
‐‐ Kenneth Jay Lane

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.
‐‐ John Piper

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
‐‐ Keri Hilson

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
‐‐ Antonia Fraser

My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
‐‐ Mark Vonnegut

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
‐‐ Melissa Gilbert

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
‐‐ George Akerlof

My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
‐‐ Dixie Carter

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

My mother worked in a chocolate factory, so when I came home from school, I had a piece of baguette with dark chocolate in it. I remember her smelling like chocolate.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
‐‐ Felicity Jones