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“My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.”

Shows Wanted Mother Parent Lessons Singing Mirrors Dancing Piano Performing Show Business Discouraged Piano Lesson

Author:Irene Cara

“My mother always wanted to give back.”

Giving Wanted Mother Giving Back

Author:Lady Gaga

“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

Source: Vengeance

“My Mother - Amma Her touch was my solace, Her smile did encourage, Her love was my strength, Her stare, I fully decant, Her care was my power, Her joy was my shower, Her anger corrected my path, Her laughter filled my heart, Her silence made me ponder, Her glare was my reminder, Her scorn corrected my track, Her embrace I never did lack.”

Love Heart Mother Emotion Power Strength Embrace Solace Encourage Reminder

Author:Munindra Misra

Source: Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme

“My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening”

Silence Words

Author:Howard Norman

Source: My Darling Detective

“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Mother Dad Guitar Fiddle

Author:Gordie Howe

“My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.”

Knows World Made Bigs Mother Community Differences Animal Interesting Know How Lovers Dad Lifetime Pet Fascinated Most Interesting Interesting Things Animal Lover

Author:Betty White

“My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.”

Thinking Kind Moving Mother Passion Father Acting New York Adventure Actresses Expected My Passion Mother And Father

Author:Jennifer Garner

“My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.”

Mother Father Mother And Father

Author:John Lewis

“My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.”

Years Stills Together Mother Father Forty Mother And Father

Author:Janet McTeer

“My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.”

“My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.”

Mother Father Gay Handle Mother And Father Being Gay

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.”

Years Mother Father Terrible Killing Celebrate Mother And Father Wedding Anniversary Killing Each Other

Author:Marina Abramovic

“My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.”

People Mother Father Return Taxes Factories Ups & Downs Mother And Father Waitress Tax Returns

Author:Patti Smith

“My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.”

Mother Father Honor Equal Profession Mother And Father Love And Honor Equal Love

Author:O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

“My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.”

Made Book Mother Father Study Stressed Mother And Father

Author:Len Elmore

“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.”

Littles Mother Guy Father Boys Four Italian Hung Mother And Father

Author:Chazz Palminteri

“My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.”

World Giving Mother Father Grows Space Give Me Wings Nurturing Mother And Father

Author:Michael Franti

“My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers—even the answers they themselves believed. I don’t know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being “politically conscious”—as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.”

Life Answers Certainty Meaning Questioning Questions Searching

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

Source: Between the World and Me

“My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.”

Stories Seems Mother Father Wonderful Mines Remarkable Mother And Father

Author:Orson Welles

“My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.”

People Ifs Persons Long Running Mother Father Difficult Pay My Friends Active Fantastic Long Runs Mother And Father Loving Person

Author:Boy George

“My mother and father were interested in the arts.”

Art Mother Father Mother And Father

Author:Ken Adam

“My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.”

Years Together Mother Father Perfect Roles Too Much Models Role Models Mother And Father

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.”

Mother Father Taught Dad Strive Quitting Nfl Being The Best Never Quit Mother And Father Best Football Montana Theresa

Author:Joe Montana

“My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.”

Made Different Kids Wanted Together Mother Church Special Grandmother Pastor Womb Personal Relationships Mother And Grandmother

Author:Joe Gibbs

“My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.”

Made America Mother Choices Father Promise Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.”

Jobs Mother Values Opportunity Nice Plans College Smart Fellows Advertising Suits Avenues My Future Madison Madison Avenue

Author:George Carlin

“My mother and I always had full adult communication.”

Mother Communication Adults

Author:Erin Gray

“My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.”

Bigs Mother Violence Domestic Violence

Author:Brandon Marshall

“My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.”

Years Mother Father Crime Dad Partners My Sister Partners In Crime

Author:Rashida Jones

“My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us best friends.”

Mother

Author:Susan Ford

“My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.”

Looks Mother Seeing Window

Author:Gloria Swanson

“My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman, or daughter to mother, friend to friend - just off the record, clear the air and communicate. I didn't want to drive my mama crazy, but at the same time, I had to do, I had to learn, I had to grow and she understood that. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet so I tried to think about that.”

Thinking Knows Want Real Mother Grows Clear Records Air Crazy Planets Conversation Daughter Understood Communicate Know Me Mama Mother Daughter Real Conversation Woman To Woman

Author:Queen Latifah

“My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.”

Problem Kids Mother Streets Distance Surface Friendly

Author:George Carlin

“My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth had that happened? The realization made me want to sit down on the stairs and cry. It seemed to signify something terrible about the world: something that couldn't - or mustn't- be put into words. And I could see, looking down into her startled, anxious face, that my mother felt exactly the same way.”

Time Aging Mothers

Author:John Wray

“My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.”

Children Mother

Author:Tamara Mellon

“My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.”

Years Mother Company Four Theme Four Years Parting Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Billy Corgan

“My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.”

Mother Sleep Building Abandoned Abandoned Buildings

Author:Mark Webber

“My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.”

Two Moving Mother Father Bridges Fragile Continents Builder Extending Edifice Moving Slowly

Author:Diane Setterfield

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“My mother and I were on a plane. Before we left I talked with Elf. She didn't talk at all. I told her things would be okay, truly, that I needed her, that I understood her, that I loved her, that I'd miss her, that I'd be back for her, that being together in Toronto for a while would be amazing, that Nora was really looking forward to it too, that I understood that just because she didn't want to live didn't mean that she necessarily wanted to die it's just that that's sort of how that one goes, that she wanted to die the way she'd lived, with grace and dignity, that I needed her to be patient, to fight a little longer, to hold on, to know she was loved, to know I wanted to help her, that I would help her, that I needed to do some stuff, that mom and I had to go to Aunt Tina's funeral in Vancouver, that I'd be back, that she'd stay with me in Toronto for a while, a total break, that Nic was here now, back in Winnipeg, that he'd see her every day, that I had to go, that I had to know she'd be okay while I was gone, that I would bow down before her suffering with compassion, that she could control her life, that I understood that pain is sometimes psychic, not only physical, that she wanted nothing more than to end it and to sleep forever, that for her life was over but that for me it was still ongoing and that an aspect of it was trying to save her, that the notion of saving her was one that we didn't agree on, that I was willing to do whatever she wanted me to do but only if it was absolutely true that there were no other doors to find, to push against or storm because if there were I'd break every bone in my body running up against that fucking door repeatedly, over and over and over and over.”

Death Grief Sadness Sisters

Author:Miriam Toews

Source: All My Puny Sorrows

“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.'”

Knows Trying Littles Happens Mother Bits Tomorrow Little Bit Welfare Stamps Ethos Food Stamps

Author:Moby

“My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.”

Shows Home Mother Left Tvs Proud London Rings Tv Shows Proud Of Me

Author:Gail Porter

“My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.”

Thinking World Giving Writing Character Mother Levels Careers Determined Thrill Great Character

Author:James Ellroy

“My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.”

Mother Cheese Pasta

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.”

People Ifs Littles Young Mother Actors Father Strong England Determined Spokes Very Strong Accents Australian Englishmen Scots

Author:George Ogilvie

“My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.”

Years Shows Reality Mother Father Watches Performances Crowds Bus Eighty Reality Shows Clamor

Author:Jeff Dunham

“My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.”

Want Looks Long Problem America Faces Mother Father Taught Economics Honestly Impressed Veneer

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.”

Firsts Made Mother Father First Time Cinema

Author:Roberto Benigni

“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.”

“My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.”

Knows Enough Kids Mother Father Teacher Profession Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather

Author:Warren Beatty

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