Mother Quotes

It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.

Jane Smiley
- She
- Mother
- Driving
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.

Carmen Ejogo
- She
- Mother
- Personality

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

Pierce Brosnan
- Mother
- Boxing
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Brooke Hayward
- True
- Parents
- Feeling
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

Alton Tobey
- Mother
- Career
- Table
The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, before she let them go.

Joel Rosenberg
- She
- Students
- Clock
My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.

Don Rickles
- Life
- Wife
- Boss
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Meg Greenfield
- Mother