My Mother Quotes

• We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • My Mother
  • Meal
  • Supermarket

• My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Music
  • Family
  • Singing

• The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Left
  • Letter
  • I Wrote

• My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

  

  Etta James
  • Trouble
  • Learned
  • Jazz

• 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
  • Life
  • Values
  • Example

• Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.

  

  Kao Kalia Yang
  • Reason
  • Choose
  • Love Is

• My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Kids
  • Drama
  • Born

• I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Ugly
  • My Mother
  • Features

• I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • My Mother
  • Speaks
  • Hindi

• So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.

  

  Elijah
  • Death
  • Blood
  • My Mother

• Affordable prices are important to me. My mother lets me know if something is too expensive. With a few dresses, she's, like, "That's too much." "But Mom, it's $59.99." "It's too much." And then I go back and we talk about price points. My family keeps my grounded.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Dresses
  • My Family
  • Expensive

• My father had an amazing legacy, and so does my mother. I wanted to be able to have both names there. In my personal life, it's Evan Naess. In my career life, it's Evan Ross.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Legacy
  • My Father
  • Career life

• My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Problem
  • Forget
  • Information

• I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Hair
  • My Mother
  • Comb

• My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

  

  Eva Green
  • Movies
  • My Mother
  • Demonstrations

• My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Science
  • Church
  • Training

• My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

  

  Eva Green
  • Actress
  • France
  • I Move

• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  

  Etta James
  • Song
  • Bring
  • My Mother

• My mother died when I was 18. Up until then, I never saw a tin can in my house.

  

  Edna Lewis
  • House
  • Died
  • My Mother

• My mother served in the Armed Forces.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Serve
  • My Mother
  • Armed Forces

• But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Friends
  • My Mother
  • Bugged

• I lost my mother early, I've sometimes felt I haven't had anyone to show me the way. When I look to the future there's only a blank. "I can't see past the point where I am," the speaker says at one point - "like you, I'm just passing through." If my mother were still alive I imagine I'd have a clearer sense of what a meaningful, vital life might look like 25 years down the line.

  

  Deborah Landau
  • Future
  • Meaningful
  • Point

• With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,' 'The Great American Mousical,' 'Simeon's Gift' and 'Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.'

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Wisdom
  • My Mother
  • Children's Book

• My mother had me sort the eyes.

  

  Elizabeth Graver
  • Eyes
  • My Mother

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