Mother Quotes
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.
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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.
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Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home.
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I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.
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My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
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My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
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My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'
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I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.
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My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
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If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
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I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
