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I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar. — Penny Reid

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare. — Mira Grant

There is no such thing as unconditional love," my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any time. — Elana K. Arnold

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

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady — Ettore Sottsass

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are. — Steve Kazee

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that? — Wendy Liebman

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered] — Howard Fast

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map. — Susan Estrich

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. — Anne Heche

All cat stories start with this statement: My mother, who was the first cat, told me this ... — Shirley Jackson

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up. — Haruki Murakami

Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot. — Patricia Briggs

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend. — Rodney Dangerfield

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle — Phyllis Diller

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing
is impolite. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

My mother once told me my opinion was the only one that mattered. I've lived by tat advice ever since. — A.P. Heath

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother. — Michel Templet

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things. — Hannibal

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. — Marjane Satrapi

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that? — Charles Manson

My mother told me that dead men don't sing — George R R Martin

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them. — John D. Voelker

My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me
It laid on top of it instead. — Erin Hanson

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird? — Chynna Phillips

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. — Jessica Savitch

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted. — Harry Frankfurt

My mother told me ... if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you. — Lance Armstrong

My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance. — Lulu

Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out. — Janet McNally

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do. — Stevie Wonder

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John. — Stevie Wonder

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy. — Jan Brewer

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up. — Suzanne Collins

I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference. — Emily Giffin

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. — Adam Sandler

I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

You killed more people than anybody in history."
"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. — Orson Scott Card

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L. — Warren Moon

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. — Wilma Rudolph

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off! — Catherine Zeta-Jones

To my mother, who always told me to write about what I know. I'm fairly sure she didn't actually mean this. — John Wiltshire

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him. — Vladimir Putin

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. — Alan Garner

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards. — Sarah Millican

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name. — Paul Lynde

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young. — Barbra Streisand

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress. — Kirsten Dunst

I have no doubt that my mother's pregnancy with me was an accident. Mostly because on several occasions, she told me I was an accident. — Chelsea Handler

My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds. — Joan Rivers

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. — Eula Biss

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. — Judy Blume

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait. — Judy Tenuta

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.' — Sandra Bullock

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. — Chazz Palminteri

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled.

Not for a minute. — Joanne Harris

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. — Sarah Dessen

My mother always told me that you should wear your best clothing when you are angry, because it would scare people. — Maggie Stiefvater

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them. — Marita Golden

A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it. — Hannah Gadsby

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way. — Adriana Trigiani

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

As my mother told me, if you save one life, it begins a dynasty. The life you save can save another, so one life is never too small. — Diane Von Furstenberg

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make. — Clint Eastwood

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife. — Alice Hoffman

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. — Rachel Kushner

I grew up in a second when my mother died," he told Sunil. "My father and brother didn't understand me. — Katherine Boo

-"What's that for?"
-"Have a little bread with your ice cream," she told me. — Astrid Amara

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee

Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury. — Anchee Min

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years. — Ingrid Bergman

I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.' — Willard Wigan

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do? — Barry Deutsch

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career. — Michael Emerson

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. — Glen Duncan

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. — Halle Berry

My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry. — Emily Whitaker

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did. — Archie Panjabi

My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents. — David Levithan

Ah, well, my mother told me that if wishes were fishes, we would all be swimming in riches. Ok, tell me about these two facilities. — Craig Alanson

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea. — Frank Lampard

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch." — Phyllis Diller

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. — Etta James

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church. — Wesley Clark

He is no true knight, but he saved me all the same," she told the mother. "Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him -Sansa — George R R Martin

The only thing my mother told me about sex was that I was never going to get any. — Douglas N. Graham

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did. — Michael Lee-Chin

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months. — Ginger Rogers

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things ... she wanted to protect me from it. — Diane Von Furstenberg

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young. — Morena Baccarin

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. — Nick Santino

My mother always told me,"hide your face-people are looking at you".I would reply,"it does not matter;I am also looking at them — Malala Yousafzai

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.' — Yoko Ono