All Quotes

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
‐‐ Michael Rispoli

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
‐‐ Jonathan Winters

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.
‐‐ Joe Gibbs

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
‐‐ Lamar Odom

My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.
‐‐ Christian Cota

My mother and I always had full adult communication.
‐‐ Erin Gray

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us 'best friends.'
‐‐ Susan Ford

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
‐‐ Mark Webber

My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres.
‐‐ Jose Andres

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'
‐‐ Moby

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.
‐‐ Andrei Codrescu

My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
‐‐ Gail Porter

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.
‐‐ James Ellroy

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.
‐‐ Jessica White

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.
‐‐ Jeff Dunham

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
‐‐ Huey Newton

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
‐‐ Aaron Sanchez

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

My mother answers all my fan mail.
‐‐ Patti Smith

My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
‐‐ Patricia MacLachlan

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.
‐‐ Michael Haneke

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
‐‐ Guy Johnson

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.
‐‐ Jonas Armstrong

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
‐‐ Michael Smith

My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
‐‐ Christian Slater

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.
‐‐ Michael Franti

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
‐‐ Joan Armatrading