Mother Quotes
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.
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It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
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We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.
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My mother taught me to read.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
