All Quotes

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
‐‐ Ed Bradley

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.
‐‐ Seymour Cassel

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.
‐‐ Henry Cavill

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.
‐‐ DMX

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.
‐‐ Rihanna

My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
‐‐ Ina Garten

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.
‐‐ Christine Quinn

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking... she wanted to make sure my brother, my sister and I had food in our bellies.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
‐‐ Karl Schroeder

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
‐‐ Eula Biss

My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like, 'Okay, so now it looks like I am your mother and you are my daughter,' to which she would reply, 'Well, yes. Handle it and pamper me.'
‐‐ Thalia

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
‐‐ Herman Cain

My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.
‐‐ Henrik Fisker

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
‐‐ Gabrielle Reece

My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
‐‐ Nick D'Aloisio

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
‐‐ Panayiotis Zavos

My motivation is paying the mortgage. No joke. Honestly. I still suffer with nerves and think, 'Why am I putting myself through this torture?' It's not actually the love of winning - it's that building of a partnership with a horse. Just riding horses every day keeps me going. And that threat of losing the mortgage.
‐‐ Lee Pearson

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.
‐‐ Rose McIver

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

My motivation to compete was always about improving one year to the next. At 34, I realised I'd never run any quicker, so why hang on? But I love running and still run along woodland trails and beaches every few days.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.
‐‐ Maurice Allais

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
‐‐ Jose Canseco

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.
‐‐ Venus Williams

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
‐‐ Kelly Wearstler

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
‐‐ Charles Lamb

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
‐‐ Yves Chauvin

My motto is, 'Never quit.'
‐‐ Henry Rollins

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
‐‐ John Burroughs

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
‐‐ Edith Head

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
‐‐ Allan McNish

My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
‐‐ Paul Walker