All Quotes

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
‐‐ David Antin

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.
‐‐ Horton Foote

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
‐‐ Joan Collins

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
‐‐ Peter Hook

My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.
‐‐ Phoebe Philo

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
‐‐ Christine Keeler

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
‐‐ Etta James

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
‐‐ Michael Michele

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and run, and I ran for 30 years pretty religiously.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
‐‐ Liz Murray

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.
‐‐ Lily Collins

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
‐‐ Alejandro Amenabar

My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
‐‐ Natalie Wood

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
‐‐ Kathy Bates

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
‐‐ Rudolph A. Marcus

My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.
‐‐ Kimberly Quinn

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
‐‐ Bernie Worrell

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.
‐‐ John Delaney

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
‐‐ Jose Manuel Barroso

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
‐‐ Simon Callow

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.
‐‐ Richard Greenberg

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
‐‐ Suzanne Vega

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
‐‐ Archie Panjabi

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
‐‐ Ariel Winter

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
‐‐ John C. Hawkes

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7.
‐‐ Georgia Holt

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
‐‐ Theresa Russell

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
‐‐ Jack White

My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair... I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.
‐‐ Kylie Bax

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.
‐‐ Monte Irvin

My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
‐‐ Jacob Rothschild

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
‐‐ Madeline Kahn

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
‐‐ Grace Jones

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
‐‐ Jefferson Mays

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
‐‐ Patricia Briggs

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.
‐‐ Lindsey Haun

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
‐‐ Carla Bruni

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
‐‐ Raf Simons

My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk