All Quotes

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