I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman's terms means the head insurance adjuster!
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.
When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God.
My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.
Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.
I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
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.
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.
My mother answers all my fan mail.
