All Quotes

My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
‐‐ Elizabeth Taylor

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
‐‐ Georgina Chapman

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.
‐‐ Dree Hemingway

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.
‐‐ Jerry Hunt

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
‐‐ Alice Walker

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.
‐‐ Diane Setterfield

My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt that he didn't quite know how to enjoy them. But I wasn't aware of those things then. So many of my childhood memories involve him. All the excursions into science were shaped by his knowledge and enthusiasm.
‐‐ Robert F. Engle

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.
‐‐ Peter Scolari

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'
‐‐ Shirley Eaton

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
‐‐ Andy Kaufman

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.
‐‐ Colman Domingo

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.
‐‐ Robert Mondavi

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
‐‐ Victoria Wood

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
‐‐ Gemma Arterton

My mother, she made sure all of us were treated the same and had the same opportunity to grow and develop, so that when we left the house, we could fly on our own. And she also knew when we got out into the world, we'd treat others that we came across with that same treatment and respect.
‐‐ Michael Franti

My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.
‐‐ Tobias Lindholm

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.
‐‐ Nicole Sullivan

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
‐‐ Graham Moore

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
‐‐ Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
‐‐ Lee Child

My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
‐‐ David Ulevitch

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
‐‐ Donald Barthelme

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
‐‐ David LaChapelle

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
‐‐ Faye Wattleton

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.
‐‐ Robert C. Merton

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
‐‐ Jonathan Krohn

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

My mother taught me how to write.
‐‐ Kesha

My mother taught me my first bhajan. My mother, Shobha Nigam, was a very religious woman. From her only I learnt 'Om Jai Jagdish' song and used to do puja along with her.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder