Jayne Meadows Quotes

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

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• I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Myself
  • Story
  • Romantic

• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Money
  • She
  • Mom

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Heart
  • She
  • America

• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Know

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

  Cam
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • She
  • Dream

• Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • She
  • Career
  • Parents

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Mind
  • She
  • Together

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.

  

  Damien Rice
  • God
  • Live
  • Love

• On Ventura, there she goes She just bought some bitch'n clothes Tosses her head n flips her hair She got a whole bunch of nothin in there

  

  Frank Zappa
  • She
  • Hair

• But you know, my mom having to go to the hospital seven times... like passed out because of pain... I wouldn't come home and sit with my family and be with my dad - I'd call someone up and... I'd go and get obliterated drunk and I'd go, like, on two-week benders.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Authority
  • Dictatorship
  • Betrayed

• Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • World
  • Men
  • Soul

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

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • She
  • Mother
  • Angel