Mother Quotes
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My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
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My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'
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Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
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My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.
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My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
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My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'
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I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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'You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God' This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power.
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My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
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I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.
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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
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I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.
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My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
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I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.
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The mother or other parent figure(s) must attend the infant and child so that at least its safety, security and touching are met.
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I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.
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My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.
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I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
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I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.
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My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
