My Mother Quotes

• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Tea
  • My Mother
  • British Culture

• My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Environment
  • Smart
  • Human Beings

• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  

  Bennett Madison
  • Job
  • Eternity
  • No Choice

• A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

  

  Benjamin West
  • Kiss
  • Painter
  • My Mother

• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Stage
  • My Mother
  • Sex Industry

• I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • My Mother
  • Hispanic
  • Puerto Rican

• My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Artist
  • Growing Up
  • Experiencing

• But then the Nazis arrested Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi too. They spent six weeks in prison. To get out, they gave the Nazis everything they possessed: real estate, bank accounts, bonds, dishes, silver. Then they left immediately, heading east. Russia swallowed them. My mother waited and prayed for word of them, but none came.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Prison
  • Russia
  • Possessed

• My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Truth
  • Bible
  • My Mother

• I blame it never taking a break on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Blame
  • Actress
  • Songwriting

• My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

  

  George Michael
  • Believe
  • My Mother
  • Writing Songs

• My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Track
  • Jesus Christ
  • Write Songs

• My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Nature
  • Moments
  • Photo

• I love me some Mariah Carey. I grew up on that because of my mother.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • I Love
  • My Mother
  • Mariah Carey

• Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

  

  John Ruskin
  • Stupid
  • My Mother
  • Indulged

• I’ve carried a torch of hatred for my mother for so long now that it’s hard to even see beyond the straw woman I’ve made of her.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Woman
  • My Mother
  • Torch

• And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Proud
  • Daughter
  • Whole Life

• My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • God
  • Political Correctness
  • I Believed

• I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • My Mother

• For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Relation
  • Englishman
  • Anti-imperialist

• My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

  

  Eva Hart
  • Afraid
  • Ship
  • Premonition

• I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

  

  Bono U2
  • Religion
  • I Remember
  • Chapel

• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  

  Edward B. Lewis
  • Education
  • Proud
  • Priority

• I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else.

  

  Bedrich Smetana
  • Tongue
  • My Mother
  • Fatherland

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