All Quotes

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.
‐‐ Andrae Crouch

My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.
‐‐ Christine Teigen

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
‐‐ Robin Williams

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
‐‐ Ellen Wilkinson

My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
‐‐ Brian Austin Green

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.
‐‐ Judy Blume

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
‐‐ Kaniehtiio Horn

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

My mother's my biggest supporter.
‐‐ Vinny Guadagnino

My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
‐‐ Patrick Schwarzenegger

My mother's no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if your kids hit it big, they better make it up to you for those years. She's gotten her sacrifices back with interest.
‐‐ Sean Combs

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals.
‐‐ Robert Lefkowitz

My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
‐‐ Faye Dunaway

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
‐‐ Beverly Lewis

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
‐‐ Zendaya

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
‐‐ Rachel Ticotin

My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
‐‐ Bharati Mukherjee

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
‐‐ Yancy Butler

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
‐‐ Matisyahu

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
‐‐ Alan King

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
‐‐ Emma Bonino

My mother's style has always been consensus-generating.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
‐‐ Jack White

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
‐‐ Holly Marie Combs

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
‐‐ Michael Jackson

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
‐‐ Lord Mountbatten

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
‐‐ Amy Tan

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
‐‐ Jonathan Rhys Meyers

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
‐‐ Marat Safin

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
‐‐ Cheryl Strayed

My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.
‐‐ Lark Voorhies