Mother Quotes
-
'It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.'
Larry McMurtry
-
It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
Nelly Furtado
-
To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.
Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
-
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
John Sebastian
-
From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
Abby Wambach
-
I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.
Christina Applegate
-
I'll be the best person and mother, everything I can be.
Kendra Wilkinson
-
My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
Madeline Kahn
-
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
-
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Saint Augustine
-
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell
-
My mother had to label all our clothing. As the youngest boy, all my tags read Droga5.
David Droga
-
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
Jhumpa Lahiri
-
My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us 'best friends.'
Susan Ford
-
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
Gene Tierney
-
When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!
David Mixner
-
I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
Lainie Kazan
-
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
Dennis Farina
-
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
Patti Smith
-
There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
Carrie Fisher
-
I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
D. B. Sweeney
-
My mother worked in a chocolate factory, so when I came home from school, I had a piece of baguette with dark chocolate in it. I remember her smelling like chocolate.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
-
I've learned more from makeup artists in my nine years of modeling than from my mother. She always told me not to wear any makeup. I try to keep my skin and hair clean and give them a rest when I'm not working.
Bianca Balti
-
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
I. M. Pei