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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous. — Christopher Buckley

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships. — Rebecca Walker

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.' — Maxine Hong Kingston

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies
mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat. — Elizabeth Gaskell

You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale. — Kiera Cass

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer. — Jami Attenberg

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. — Peaches Geldof

My mother says healers are born, not made. — Suzanne Collins

Your mother left me because I slept with her best friend. My personality had nothing to do with it. — Colleen Hoover

What if forgiving my mother also means forgiving myself? — Iyanla Vanzant

Mugged by my own mother. — Rick Riordan

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad. — Colin Firth

My mother use to tell me about the ocean. — Carrie Ryan

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

I quickly turned my thoughts away from my mother's overbearing prudence before I might accidentally see reason in it. — William Ritter

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. — Greg Norman

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. — Christina Aguilera

My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman. — Jean Genet

My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night. — Mother Teresa

The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother? — Lesley Stahl

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God? — Anne Waldman

My mother always wanted to give back. — Lady Gaga

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France. — Segolene Royal

Everyday I've got is my Mother's Day! — Mohith Agadi

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. — Margaret Deland

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.' — Elaine Stritch

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. — Gunter Grass

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. — Kara Swisher

I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her. — Michelle Zink

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother. — Martin McGuinness

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun. — Jennifer Ehle

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything. — Peter Hook

And isna Sybilla a wee love o' a bitch?'

'You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. — Robin Roberts

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. — Ginger Rogers

I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes."
She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel. — Michelle Zink

My mother is my father's wife. And the children of lovers are orphans. — Nancy Horan

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money. — Bill Murray

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother. — Cassandra Page

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. — Hermione Gingold

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart. — Gene Simmons

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen. — Harold Brodkey

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. — Virginia Postrel

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

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

I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother. — Satish Kumar

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16. — Peaches Geldof

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. — Jim Gaffigan

Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you. — Cassandra Clare

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that. — Bryan Brown

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian. — Siri Hustvedt

Marriage? Please. I'll keep my freedom, thanks. Besides, I'm not a girl anyone brings home to their mother. — S.A. Huchton

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein

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 and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting. — Tina Turner

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster. — George Clooney

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent. — Lauryn Hill

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene. — Merry Clayton

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling. — John Travolta

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian. — Pauly D

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well. — Gary Sheffield

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. — Kaniehtiio Horn

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America. — Jack Bowman

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion. — Lincoln Steffens

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. — Cheryl Strayed

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. — Augusten Burroughs

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays. — Joan Rivers

My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister. — Daisy Hernandez

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

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

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. — Thelma Golden

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused. — Guy Pearce

My mother is my life's breath. — Muhammad Faisal Yaqoob

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. — John Major

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. — Lynn Johnston

She wasn't always a demon," he finished. "She was my mother once. — J.R. Rain

My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art. — E.L. James

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. — Peter Fonda

My mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching. — Natalie Babbitt

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother. — Debasish Mridha

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. — Toni Cade Bambara

I remembered something my mother used to say. "The devil can quote scripture." "And in a pleasing voice," Mrs. Shoplaw agreed moodily. — Stephen King

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on. — Nora Roberts

The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler. — George R R Martin

My mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby. — Gillian Flynn

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family. — Alexis Stewart

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. — Jerry B. Jenkins

I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes. — Kate Winslet

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. — Alan Sugar

So now you've met my mother,' I say to Jase that night, leaning back on the roof.
'I sure have. That was awesome. And completely uncomfortable. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. — Caroline Kennedy

I screamed, Go to hell! in the car, and the GPS took me to my mother-in-law's house. — Emma Beasley