My Mother Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 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

• 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

• 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 mother served in the Armed Forces.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Serve
  • My Mother
  • Armed Forces

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

  

  Esha Gupta
  • My Mother
  • Speaks
  • Hindi

• ... 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

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

  

  Elijah
  • Death
  • Blood
  • My Mother

• I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Father
  • Sister
  • My Mother

• Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Grief
  • Darkness
  • My Friends

• 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

• 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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