All Quotes

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.
‐‐ John Wozniak

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
‐‐ Clay Aiken

My mother taught me to appreciate a good drugstore beauty aisle. I regularly use Aquaphor, Chap Stick, Purpose Face Soap, and Aveeno body moisturizer.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood

My mother taught me to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day, so I always do that - I could be partying or working late, but I'm never too tired to take care of my skin.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
‐‐ David Geffen

My mother taught me to read.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
‐‐ Chris Brown

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.
‐‐ Esai Morales

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

My mother taught us the man was the head of the family, but the woman was the neck, and you could turn him any way you like.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
‐‐ Janet Reno

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo

My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.
‐‐ Lara Stone

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
‐‐ Moon Unit Zappa

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
‐‐ Len Cariou

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
‐‐ Diego Maradona

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
‐‐ Christie Hefner

My mother thinks I'm a national treasure. She's the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever.
‐‐ Cyrus Broacha

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.
‐‐ Gina Barreca

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
‐‐ Kitty Carlisle

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
‐‐ Jai Rodriguez

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'
‐‐ Luke Benward

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.
‐‐ Giovanni Ribisi

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.
‐‐ Jennifer Jones

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.
‐‐ Archie Panjabi

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
‐‐ Buck Owens

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.
‐‐ Judy Blume

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.
‐‐ Mr. T

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
‐‐ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.
‐‐ Lea Thompson

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
‐‐ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides.'
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
‐‐ Randy Pausch

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
‐‐ Ben van Berkel

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
‐‐ Angie Everhart

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.
‐‐ Georgie Henley

My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.
‐‐ James McBride

My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins