All Quotes

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.
‐‐ Martin Donovan

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
‐‐ Karan Johar

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
‐‐ Linda McCartney

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.
‐‐ Andrea Barrett

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
‐‐ Emo Philips

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
‐‐ Andre Dubus III

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.
‐‐ Troy Garity

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

My mother was my best friend and confidante.
‐‐ Renata Tebaldi

My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'
‐‐ Jesse McCartney

My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
‐‐ Hugh Leonard

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
‐‐ Ursula Burns

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
‐‐ Andrew Rannells

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.
‐‐ Penny Marshall

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.
‐‐ Mark Ronson

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.
‐‐ Sylvia Kristel

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.
‐‐ Suzy Bogguss

My mother was really involved with the Refusenik campaign with Soviet Union Jews. They would come and stay at our house, some of them, after they managed to get out of the Soviet Union at the time. There were things that were Jewish-related happening in my house quite consistently, but it was much more from a kind of activist standpoint.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
‐‐ Diane Keaton

My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
‐‐ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
‐‐ Jane Birkin

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
‐‐ Edmund White

My mother was the center of the family.
‐‐ John Major

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
‐‐ Martin Short

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.
‐‐ Jayne Meadows

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
‐‐ John H. Johnson

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
‐‐ Maira Kalman

My mother was the love of my life.
‐‐ Colman Domingo

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
‐‐ Cheryl Mendelson

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
‐‐ Vernon Jordan