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“My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.”

People Should Christian Mother Influence Example Huge Discipline Conviction

Author:Barry Sanders

“My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Team Fans Huge Steelers

Author:Deron Williams

“My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!”

Play Wanted Mother Wish Trouble Jazz Busy Piano Tunes Fanatics Too Busy

Author:Etta James

“My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.”

Writing Mother Journalist Unnatural

Author:Ginger Rogers

“My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.”

Stories Mother Black Interesting Resources South Los Angeles Call Me Librarian

Author:Karyn Parsons

“My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.”

Mother Talking Comfortable Listeners Talkers

Author:Diane Keaton

“My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.”

Children Mother Patient Genes

Author:Merry Clayton

“My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.”

Inspirational Mother Interest Sun Modern Shots Dance Rockets Atonement Synagogue Charleston Sun Set Modern Woman

Author:Lionel Blue

“My mother was a mother of mothers, modern before she was ancestral. She was a woman who morphed into feline, back to her human self before I woke each morning.”

Poetry Poem Mothers Felines

Author:Tina Chang

“My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.”

Mother Teacher Singing Professors Grandfather My Grandfather Music Teacher

Author:Ed Droste

“My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.”

Years Mother Daughter Congress Lawyer Representatives Distinguished Philadelphia Sergeants

Author:John Sergeant Wise

Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

“My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.”

Years Mother Church Atheist Devoted Christmas Eve

Author:Anne Lamott

“My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.”

Kind Age Young Mother Growing Up Teacher Growing Healthy Findings Staying Nutrition Looking Good Flexible Young Age Fanatics

Author:Josh Duhamel

“My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.”

Mother Mom Conversation Motherhood Ongoing

Author:Della Reese

“My mother was a politician in my formative years.”

Years Mother Politician Formative Years

Author:Antonia Fraser

“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.”

People Persons Pain Remember Used Mother Attention Daughter Sick Christmas Pills Alcoholics Leave Me Alone Christmas Time Sick Person

Author:Jim Carrey

“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.”

School Mother Teacher Survived Public School Virginia School Teachers Happy Family

Author:Dave Grohl

“My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.”

Inspiration Mother Brother Mom Reader Six Eight My Brother Drs Happy Mothers Day Best Mother Hyde Jekyll Mr Hyde

Author:Stephen King

“My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.”

Mother Church

Author:Emma Bonino

“My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.”

Mother Lines Broken Moved Extremes Rhythm Straight Lines Broken Things

Author:Louise Bourgeois

Source: Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days

“My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.”

School Mother Cities Traveled Grammar Grammar School

Author:Edmund Hillary

“My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.”

Mother Clothes

Author:Phillip Lim

“My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.”

People Firsts Hard Mother Father Stars Parent Company Player Hard Work Integrity International Nba Secretary Nba Player All Stars

Author:Brian J. White

“My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.”

Mother Singers

Author:Len Cariou

“My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.”

Mother Heard Notes Singers

Author:Jon Gordon

“My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.”

Knows Mother Strong Mom Single Mom

Author:Regina King

“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

Mother Parent Company Teach Speech Victim Income Hospitals Strokes Percentages Therapists Single Parent

Author:Mona Simpson

“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends, and so I was brought up with the idea that there are many realms of being all around us. So that prepared me for Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism with all its talk of different realms and dimensions of being.”

Ideas Different Mother House Buddhism Prepared Various Neighbor Mediums Realms Dimensions Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.”

Littles Wanted School Mother Girl Given Stars Gone New York Towns Finishing Arkansas Little Towns Finishing School

Author:George Hamilton

“My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.”

Home Light Jobs Mother Careers Mom Passionate Our Family Stimulation Stay At Home Stay At Home Mom

Author:Allison Pearson

“My mother was a storm a sky filled with dark clouds she could threaten or just burst open”

Family Family Relationships Mothers And Daughters Generational Trauma

Author:Diana Ferrus

Source: I've Come To Take You Home

“My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Kids Mother Strong Support Path Prove Long Way Like Something Right Path Opinionated Strong Willed Sicilian

Author:Marlo Thomas

“My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.”

School Mother Prayer Teacher Son Mom Praying My Mom Sunday School Teachers Sunday School Sunday School Teacher

Author:Steve Harvey

“My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.”

Art Shows Wanted Mother Literature Teacher Parks Museums Take Me Show Me Exhibitions

Author:David Blaine

“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”

Mother Father Community Class Teacher Backgrounds Working Class Organizer

Author:Chris Hayes

“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.”

Should Done Mother Force Gone Generations Should Have University Witty Clever Terrific Wartime Very Clever Very Witty

Author:Ian Hislop

“My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.”

Faces Mother Fighting Patient Gas Mask Nurse Grappling Gas Masks

Author:Maeve Binchy

“My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.”

Men World Writing Years Book War Mother Found Study Violence Written He Man Ego Creating Notes Greed Feminist Tension Pakistan Cleaning Trunks Cleaning Up Lahore

Author:Vandana Shiva

“My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.”

Problem America Mother Fun Fine Months Drinking Having Fun Bitterness Going Out Absent

Author:Sophie Calle

“My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.”

Ifs Trying Play Wanted Beautiful Mother Half Known Player Died Guitar Very Good Nine Guitar Player Very Beautiful Beautiful Lady

Author:B. B. King

“My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.”

Ifs Mother Difficult Please

Author:Mem Fox

“My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.”

Ifs Humor Mother Flying Elegant Lawns Flying Saucers Elegant Woman

Author:Joan Rivers

“My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.”

Persons Mother Educated Vocabulary Exceptional

Author:Lynn Johnston

“My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.”

Mother Doors Blow Bars Snakes Australian Crow Back Doors

Author:Mem Fox

“My mother was a very wise and strong person.”

Persons Mother Strong Wise Very Wise Strong Person

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.”

Two Kids Mother Black Dark Groups Hair Black Women No Love Single Mother Panthers Short Hair Black Panther Dark Skinned

Author:Tupac Shakur

“My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.”

Children Mother Voice Church Wonderful Activity Cooking Lovely Hated Housework Arranging Bazaars Wonderful Woman Lovely Voice

Author:Maureen Forrester

“My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.”

Mother Father Strong Very Strong Frightening Adorable

Author:Zoe Wanamaker

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