I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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.
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
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.
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.
My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.
I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.
