My Mother Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Revenge
  • My Mother
  • I Want

• 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 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
  • My Family
  • Write A Book

• 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

• A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Heavens
  • Motionless
  • Human Religions

• My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Funny
  • Comedian
  • Rock And Roll

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Esha Gupta
  • My Mother
  • Speaks
  • Hindi

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• ... my mother, before she became my mother, was followed by the man with whom she would make love, who would cover her with his name, who would annihilate her with his alphabet.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • My Mother
  • Alphabet

• A dreamcatcher is supposed to catch the bad dreams, to let the good ones through. When I was a child on the reserve, I had one hanging above my bed. I remember staring at it as I listened to my mother cry for hours in the dark. I have never known one to work.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Dreams

• I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

  

  Beatrice Lillie
  • Age
  • My Mother
  • Meals

• My mother served in the Armed Forces.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Serve
  • My Mother
  • Armed Forces

• I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

  

  Eva Green
  • Woman
  • Performance
  • Worried

• My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Believe
  • My Mother
  • Silver

• 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 said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Child
  • Angry
  • Emotions

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