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“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.”

People Ifs Children Made Seems Mother Special Normal Made It Cheer Perfectly Normal

Author:Shirley Temple

“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.”

Children Made Today School Science Mother Asks Differences Scientist Asking Mathematics Engineering Brooklyn After School Great Science Good Questions Jewish Mother

Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi

“My mother made me into the type of person who is at ease standing in the middle of moving traffic, the type of person who ends up having more adventures and making more mistakes. Mum never stopped encouraging me to try, fail and take risks. I kept pushing myself to do unconventional things because I liked the reaction I got from her when I told her what I'd done. Mum's response to all my exploits was to applaud them. Great, you're living your life, and not the usual life prescribed for a woman either. Well done! Thanks to her, unlike most girls at the time, I grew up regarding recklessness, risk-taking and failure as laudable pursuits. Mum did the same for Vida by giving her a pound every time she put herself forward. If Vida raised her hand at school and volunteered to go to an old people's home to sing, or recited a poem in assembly, or joined a club, Mum wrote it down in a little notebook. Vida also kept a tally of everything she'd tried to do since she last saw her grandmother and would burst out with it all when they met up again. She didn't get a pound if she won a prize or did something well or achieved good marks in an exam, and there was no big fuss or attention if she failed at anything. She was only rewarded for trying. That was the goal. This was when Vida was between the ages of seven and fifteen, the years a girl is most self-conscious about her voice, her looks and fitting in, when she doesn't want to stand out from the crowd or draw attention to herself. Vida was a passive child – she isn't passive now. I was very self-conscious when I was young, wouldn't raise my voice above a whisper or look an adult in the eye until I was thirteen, but without me realizing it Mum taught me to grab life, wrestle it to the ground and make it work for me. She never squashed any thoughts or ideas I had, no matter how unorthodox or out of reach they were. She didn't care what I looked like either. I started experimenting with my clothes aged eleven, wearing top hats, curtains as cloaks, jeans torn to pieces, bare feet in the streets, 1930s gowns, bells around my neck, and all she ever said was, 'I wish I had a camera.”

Parenting Successful People Parenting Advice Parenting Children Good Parenting Good Parents How To Raise A Child How To Raise Children Parenting Resource

Author:Viv Albertine

Source: To Throw Away Unopened

“My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow.”

Made Mother Grows Christ Church Influence Involved Grandmother Mother And Grandmother

Author:Torii Hunter

“My mother made us eat all sorts of vitamins and supplements, until one day I nearly choked on part of The Sunday Times.”

Made Humor Funny Mother One Day Sunday Vitamins Supplements

Author:Milton Jones

“My mother maintained the sort of parental mind-set that I now recognize as brilliant and nearly impossible to emulate - kind of unflappable Zen neutrality... She wasn't quick to judge and she wasn't quick to meddle. Instead, she monitored our moods and bore benevolent witness to whatever travails or triumphs a day might bring... When we'd done something great, we received just enough praise to know she was happy with us, but never so much that it became the reason we did what we did.”

Confidence Parenting Self Worth Self Actualization

Author:Michelle Obama

Source: Becoming

“My mother makes up for all shortcomings because she birthed Ginnie. I might not have loads of friends, but Ginnie is enough. More than enough.”

Sisters

Author:Lindsey Leavitt

Source: Going Vintage

“My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.”

Men Love Funny Mother Marriage Married Very Good Good Man

Author:George Bernard Shaw

Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw

“My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.”

“My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.”

Mother Father Married Determination Dignity Twenties Eight Loyalty Thirty Fierce Unyielding Steadiness

Author:Jill Lepore

“My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.”

Mean Doe Mother Three Dad Married My Dad Zero Three Times

Author:Leslie Mann

“My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.”

World Giving Might Mother Gold Weight India Smell Myth Tales Chains Fairy Fairy Tale Linked Feathers Knots Arabia Lighters Drawers Weight Of The World

Author:Anne Lamott

“My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.”

Persons Different Mother Father House Stuff President White Break Dinner Bread Hats Hotel White House Johnson

Author:Emilio Estevez

“My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behaviour and what I thought was bad behaviour and tailoring myself accordingly.”

Mother Products Baby Dad Behavior Moved My Dad Observation Bad Behavior Good Behavior

Author:Mark Strong

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

Knows Long Hard Enough Faces Moving Mother Five Shame Print Snaps Slap Stains Faded

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“My Mother My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious soul. Here some of her teachings: Human Values: Love: Learn to love because everything that's based on love has a deep rooted foundation. Kindness: Be kind all the time but never let anyone take advantage of your kindness. Peace: Learn to have peace with yourself when the world turns against you because it starts with you. Honesty: Be honest to yourself and then to the others. Respect: Respect others and they will respect you. Openness: Be always transparent especially when you are hurting. Never pretend that it's all okay. Loyalty: Always be loyal to your family and make sure your family comes before anything else. She taught me to learn to compose myself when life gets tough and unfair to me. I love you mama & Happy Mothers Day”

Mothers Day

Author:Euginia Herlihy

“My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.”

Life Women History Childbirth Personhood

Author:Philippa Gregory

Source: The Red Queen

“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.”

Mother Psychology Drugs Funny Quotes Psychiatry Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis Delusional Delusions Sedatives

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

Source: Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.”

Mean Mother Environment Flower Miracle Desert Living Things Barren Blooming Flower

Author:Waris Dirie

“My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.”

Mother Example Taught

Author:Marie Osmond

“My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.”

Humor Funny Mother Comedy Breasts Feds Funny Motherhood Funny Mother

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you."”

Ifs Said I Can Ideas Helping Wanted Mother Poor Company Motor Pantomime Poor Family Ford Motor

Author:Scott Raab

“My mother never forgave my father”

Mother Father

Author:Stanley Kunitz

Source: The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970

“My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.”

Home School Mother Gave Up Messed Up

Author:Denzel Washington

“My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.”

Children Mother Attention Millions Five Middle Middle Child

Author:Woody Allen

“My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.”

Ifs Mother Fine Chins Chin Up

Author:Jenni Rivera

Source: Unbreakable: My Story, My Way

“My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.”

Mother Cards Fake Holiday Sentiments Mothers Day Hallmark

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.”

Men Together Mother Father Married Divorced Another Man Back Together Stepfathers Getting Back Together

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”

World Looks Mother Grows Lines Growing Up Emphasis

Author:Rachel McAdams

“My mother never really thought I could become anything.”

Mother

Author:Barbra Streisand

“My mother never seemed to listen to much music, but she loved Barbara Streisand, counting The Way We Were and Yentl as two of her favorite films. I remembered how we used to sing the song "Tell Him" together, and skipped through the album until I found it on track four. "Remember this?" I laughed, turning up the volume. It's a duet between Babe and Celine Dion, two powerhouse divas joining together for one epic track. Celine plays the role of a young woman afraid to confess her feelings to the man she loves, and Barbara is her confidant, encouraging her to take the plunge. "I'm scared, so afraid to show I care... Will he think me weak, if I tremble when I speak?" Celine begins. When I was a kid my mother used to quiver her lower lip for dramatic effect when she sang the word "tremble." We would trade verses in the living room. I was Barbara and she was Celine, the two of us adding interpretive dance and yearning facial expressions to really sell it. "I've been there, with my heart out in my hand..." I'd join in, a trail of chimes punctuating my entrance. "But what you must understand, you can't let the chance to love him pass you by!" I'd exclaim, prancing from side to side, raising my hand to urge my voice upward, showcasing my exaggerated vocal range. Then, together, we'd join in triumphantly. "Tell him! Tell him that the sun and moon rise in his eyes! Reach out to him!" And we'd ballroom dance in a circle along the carpet, staring into each other's eyes as we crooned along to the chorus. My mom let out a soft giggle from the passenger seat and we sang quietly the rest of the way home. Driving out past the clearing just as the sun went down, the scalloped clouds flushed with a deep orange that made it look like magma.”

Singing Sunset Mother Daughter Bond Barbara Streisand Duet Celine Dion Tell Him

Author:Michelle Zauner

Source: Crying in H Mart

“My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.”

Said Mother

Author:Trevor Noah

“My mother never stopped cooking. She never stopped nourishing me. On Sundays, her face would disappear into steam from simmering carrots, celery, and onions, as she prepped our soup for the week. Her food processor held a prominent spot on the kitchen counter, mixing homemade sauces. The kitchen always smelled of tahini. She showed me, leading by example, that real food is the right food. It is the only food.”

Cooking Real Food

Author:Kristen Beddard

Source: Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes

“My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".”

Knows Years Littles Shows Mother Sex Late Female Years Ago Decided Girlfriend Drs Seventies Invited Eighty Mothers Day Masturbation Ruth

Author:Judy Blume

“My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.”

Inspirational Said Self Wanted Mother Focus

Author:Halle Berry

“My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.”

Mother Courses Hurt Mothers Day Being Hurt Got Hurt

Author:Katherine Stinson

“My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.”

Work Poverty

Author:Yu Hua

“My mother often says I have the unique ability to solve a mystery with any two clues, even when there is nothing to solve.”

Mystery Ya Solve Thriller Detective

Author:Charleigh Frederick

Source: Rule 25: Don't Fall For The Target

“My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.”

Ifs Children Done Mother Stuff Cities New York New York City Auditions Modeling Small Child Carts

Author:Katherine Heigl

“My mother on her death bed told me, 'Where the hell did that kangaroo come from!?' - it just popped out of nowhere and punched her in the head and caused a cerebral hemorrhage, so I thought I'd move to a country where there were no kangaroos!”

Country Moving Mother Hell Bed Cerebral Death Bed Kangaroos

Author:Colin Mochrie

“My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.”

Ifs Said Age Mother Sound Pay Attention Nice Pay Attention

Author:Cher

“My mother once said a man should measure his worth not by the women he has tamed, but by the ones he has let run free.”

Women Feminism Hood Robin Hood

Author:Jenny Elder Moke

Source: Hood

“My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for himself in one of them, because he has no character.' But I think she was wrong”

Philosophy Character Identity Personality Searching

Author:Saud Alsanousi

“My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.”

Said Mother Can Do Promise Favour

Author:Stephane Hessel

“My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.”

Giving Mother Stuck Beggar

Author:Kirk Douglas

“My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.”

Way Mother Water Path Stones Trapped New Paths Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“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.”

Would Be Mother Given Hell Forever Taken Glimpse

Author:Glen Duncan

“My mother once told me that everything is fuelled by either money or sex, because both lead to power. She's very rarely wrong.”

Sex Power Royalty

Author:Annie Dyer

Source: Chandelier

“My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.”

Ifs Years Firsts Mother Marriage Couple Married Pot Making Love Pennies Funny Marriage Positive Marriage Married Couples Marriage Humor Funny Wedding Funny Wedding Advice First Year Marriage

Author:Armistead Maupin

Source: Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus

“My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”

Mother Attitude Mood Naked Steady Glare Bad Mood

Author:Mira Grant

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