My Mother Quotes

• In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Moved
  • My Mother

• My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

  

  Eva Herzigova
  • My Mother
  • Secretary
  • Electrician

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Elijah
  • Death
  • Blood
  • My Mother

• 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 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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

  

  George Michael
  • Dream
  • Education
  • My Mother

• My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.

  

  Esther Rolle
  • Children
  • Problems
  • Grew Up

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Found
  • Leave
  • My Mother

• 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

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