Mother Quotes

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Brother

• My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Black
  • Interesting

• If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Why
  • Food
  • Italian

• We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Party
  • Husband
  • Christmas

• A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Me
  • Doubt

• My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Sister

• My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it's not separated.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Stop

• 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mom

• If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Up
  • Good
  • America

• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • She
  • Day

• I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • True
  • Mother
  • Study

• 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.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Character
  • Experience
  • America

• I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mother
  • Story
  • Year

• My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • She
  • Mother

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Know

• The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting!

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Discoveries
  • Advances

• My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • School
  • American
  • America

• It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Believe
  • Mother

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