My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman
My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.
‐‐ Emma Bonino
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
‐‐ Candace Camp
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary
My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
‐‐ Phillip Lim
My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.
‐‐ Brian J. White
My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.
‐‐ Len Cariou
My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.
‐‐ Regina King
My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
‐‐ Mona Simpson
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
‐‐ Natalie Merchant
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
‐‐ Carmen Busquets
My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
‐‐ George Hamilton
My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
‐‐ Allison Pearson
My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow
My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.
‐‐ Steve Harvey
My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell
My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children.
‐‐ Susan Shreve
My mother was a teacher.
‐‐ Hugh Grant
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
‐‐ David Blaine
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
‐‐ Chris Hayes
My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
‐‐ Laverne Cox
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
‐‐ Ian Hislop
My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
‐‐ B. B. King
My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw.
‐‐ Nina Garcia
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
‐‐ Mem Fox
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
‐‐ Pete Seeger
My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.
‐‐ Judy Reyes
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
‐‐ Lynn Johnston
My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin
My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.
‐‐ Jarrett J. Krosoczka
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.
‐‐ Peter C. Doherty
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
‐‐ Mem Fox
My mother was a very wise and strong person.
‐‐ Jennifer Hudson
My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.
‐‐ Dolores Huerta
My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.
‐‐ Charles Dance
My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester
My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
‐‐ Donna Karan
My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.
‐‐ Laurence Yep
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
‐‐ Zoe Wanamaker
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'
‐‐ Judy Woodruff
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
‐‐ Angie Dickinson
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama
My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten
My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'
‐‐ Mehmet Oz