Mother Quotes
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My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.
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I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
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Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
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I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
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Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.
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For me, the one relationship in my life that I cherish the most has to be the one I share with my parents, especially my mother.
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You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
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My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother's scrambled eggs.
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
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If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'
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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
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From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
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My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me - and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I'd write creatively about it that night.
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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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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
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I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'
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However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
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I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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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.
