All Quotes

My mother persuaded me not to pluck my eyebrows when I was a teenager - right now I'm so grateful I never did! She also taught me to pour 2 kg. of salt in my bath whenever I feel swollen and tired - and to end it with a cold shower. It does wonders.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
‐‐ Johnny Winter

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
‐‐ Quentin Bryce

My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
‐‐ Action Bronson

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
‐‐ Morena Baccarin

My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
‐‐ Ursula Burns

My mother read me biblical stories at night.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
‐‐ Alan Garner

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she'll wear it more once it's sleeveless.
‐‐ Lake Bell

My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.
‐‐ Jill Scott

My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
‐‐ Adepero Oduye

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
‐‐ Zach Braff

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
‐‐ Eva Herzigova

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
‐‐ Alan Hovhaness

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.
‐‐ Sherilyn Fenn

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

My mother's cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.
‐‐ Mike Rowe

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
‐‐ Cheryl Strayed

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
‐‐ Arizona Muse

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
‐‐ Richie Havens

My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.
‐‐ Shereen El Feki

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
‐‐ John Hurt

My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
‐‐ John C. Mather

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
‐‐ Bernie Taupin

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
‐‐ Claire Denis