My Mother Quotes
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My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
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My mother had me sort the eyes.
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Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.
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My mother served in the Armed Forces.
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My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.
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I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.
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I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
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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?
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My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
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I stared at the reproduced mural in the book--but I was more interested in his finger as he tapped the book with approval. That finger had pulled a trigger in a war. That finger had touched my mother in tender ways I did not fully comprehend. I wanted to talk, to say something, to ask questions. But I couldn't. All the words were stuck in my throat. So I just nodded.
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My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.
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My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.
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And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?
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My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
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Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
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You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.
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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.
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My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play. That was where I first encountered music, through her.
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I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.
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... 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.
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My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa.
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Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
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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.
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How many things pass through time randomly detached from the bodies and voices of persons. My mother knew the art of making clothes last forever.
