There were nine children in my father’s family and eight in my mother’s. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They...

If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Sometimes it’s better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

The same thing I did with a whore.

We were so happy because the baby looked alright, but the mother was still screaming. There was another baby in the car. It was so crazy.

Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother’s flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad’s records. Gene Krupa and...

young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term...

I couldn’t imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn’t dare.

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and...

This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New Orleans.

I’ve always said that the first (NFL) check I get is going to my mother, … I want to get her out of Pontiac (Mich.) and let her be able to live wherever she wants....

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were...

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I’ve ever known. She didn’t have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set...

Unfortunately when Mother Nature gets mean, there’s nothing that can be done.

What have the Chinese got on us?” she declared. And I agreed. The Chinese revere their elderly. If they could live happily with multiple generations under one roof, so could we.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I’m a mother with two small children, so I don’t take as much crap as I used to.

To My MotherYou too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times,And you may chance to hear once moreThe little feet along the floor.

My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister...

Never argue with a mother who’s scolding her child.

We also do this for weddings. If a bride or groom or mother of the bride comes in with mailing labels, we will send it out to all the guests [on the list], free.

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

My first favourite book was ‘Are You My Mother?’ A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably ‘Charlie...

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of...

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

I’ve spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more...

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I split open thy vagina, thy womb, thy canals; I separate the mother and the son, the child along with the placenta. May the placenta fall down!

I like being a mother.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my...

I called my mother up and I said, ‘You know, I’ve been to the best doctors in the world and I’ve spent almost half a million dollars and they’re telling me I have symptoms of...

Born in the 90s and raised in a deserted rural area by a single mother with 2 brothers, a sister and a couple of cousins – you know; a normal Zulu family of the 21st...

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats – kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.

I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was a fact of my life–intractable and sad–that our relationship had been...

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I’m a better mother when...

I never found myself alone, because of my mother.

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don’t know what I am, but I believe in God.

One of my mother’s friends said to me, ‘Your ex-boyfriends didn’t stand a chance with you and your mother.’ And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and...

Kids never want a perfect mother; they need a little love, even if that comes from a worst mother.

I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

My mother is my life’s breath.