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“My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.”

“My mother was the bringer of storms. The dark and the light. Death and rebirth. She was as dangerous as she was beautiful as she rode the lightning. Once a potent force of nature she had the nerve to look down on us from those lofty heights.”

Supernatural Dark Fantasy Erotic Horror

Author:Scarlett Amaris

Source: Saurimonde II

“My mother was the center of the family.”

Mother

Author:John Major

“My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.”

Mother Masters Concerts Absurdity Symphony Eccentricity

Author:Martin Short

“My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.”

Mother Angel Towers Sweetest

Author:Jayne Meadows

“My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.”

Children Two Mother Universe Father Parent Results Convinced Only Child Center Of The Universe Favorite Child

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.”

Firsts Mother House Church Singers Contact

Author:Whitney Houston

“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.”

Firsts War Wanted Mother Born Teaching College Degrees Married Educated County Pianist Indiana College Degree

Author:Twyla Tharp

“My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.”

Hard Mother Values Easy Known Example Tough Easy Life Amazing Woman

Author:Lauren Bacall

“My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.”

Hard Mother Strong Justice Influence Inspire Hard Work Ultimate Parenting Triumph Life Is Hard Hard Life Great Faith I Am Strong

Author:John H. Johnson

“My mother was the making of me.”

Funny Mother Humorous Motherhood

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

Mother Felt Memories Mom Blessing Appreciation Disappoint

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.”

Firsts Kind Persons Mother Father Taught Mets Be Kind Most Amazing Be Kind To Others Amazing Person

Author:Sidney Poitier

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

Beautiful Mother Women Education Moral Saws Mom Politician Intellectual Appreciation My Mom Motherhood Attributes Success In Life 4th Of July Beautiful Women Mothers Day Being A Mom Being A Mother Mothering Mother Daughter Owing Happy Mothers Day Mother Love Mother's Love Son And Daughter Good Mother Best Mother Founding Fathers Democracy Great Mother Inspirational Mothers Mother Proverbs Mothers Day Inspirational Inspirational Motherhood Beautiful Day Good Happy Mothers Day Just A Mom Inspiring Motherhood Great Mom Happy Mothers Day Text Loving Mother Love Your Mother Mom Knows Best Inspirational Mom Mother Day Poems Young Mother Greatest Mom Most Beautiful Woman In The World Joys Of Motherhood I Love My Mother Greatest Mothers Day Motherhood And Love Love Being A Mom Physical Education Sentimental Mother I Love Being A Mom Special Mother Wonderful Mother Mothers Day Cards Touching Mother Dear Mother Moral Education Godly Mothers

Author:George Washington

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.”

Moments Beautiful Remember Mother Missing Daughter Breaths Surface Artificial Beautiful Women Captured Mother And Daughter Her Beauty

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.”

Persons Art Mother Creative Painting Lucky Come Up Great Things Fantastic Supplies

Author:Cher

“My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.”

Thinking Knows Trying Dream Mother Mom Bills Constant My Mom Pursue Me Alone Feats Happy Mothers Day

Author:Barack Obama

“My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.”

Real Whole Care Mother Guy Asks Father Behinds Plans Rocks Becoming Exciting Don't Care Comic Comedian I Don't Care Dirty Rock And Roll Good Guy

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“My mother was the one with the gift. She had a soft voice that warbled like a bird, but it was my father who wanted us to learn music. We learned the arts, my father said, to be civilized people because the world was at times a most uncivilized place. I often forgot he survived the war.”

War Humanity Culture Music Empathy Arts

Author:Kalani Pickhart

Source: I Will Die in a Foreign Land

“My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.”

School Mother President Pta

Author:Vernon Jordan

Source: Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir

“My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.”

Made Mother Bits Towns Splits Prettiest

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.”

Mother Principles Source Mom Guiding Principles

Author:John Wesley

“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.”

Ifs Christian Mother Jesus Planets Sweetest

Author:Dick Gregory

“My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.”

Thinking Littles Hands Mother Father Emotion Hell Study Fire Tough Gentle Contradiction Preacher Nails Forward Thinking

Author:Patricia Montandon

“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.”

School Mother Worst Cooking Cooks Lunch Articles Clothings

Author:Rita Rudner

“My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.”

Kind Littles Shows Mother Worst Stage Brother Costumes Brothers And Sisters Ducklings Younger Sister

Author:Renee Fleming

“My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old”

Knows Years Facts Mother Average Productions Mature

Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.”

Thinking Kind Mother Father Marriage Middle Proud Attractive Asian Middle Aged

Author:Craig Ferguson

“My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre.”

Death Loneliness

Author:Kat Dunn

Source: Bitterthorn

“My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.”

School Mother Literature Cities Teacher New York Jew Medical New York City Public School School System Medical School

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.”

Ifs Knows Made Would Be Wanted Mother Church Grace Right Now Saving Take Me Choir Saving Grace Church Choir

Author:Tyler Perry

“My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.”

Mother Feet Agnostic Synagogue

Author:Janet Suzman

“My mother was very beautiful and very clever, like all mammas, so I loved her and hated her. I began to hate her when I was around ten, maybe because I loved her so much that the idea of losing her threw me into a permanent state of anxiety, and to calm myself I had to belittle her.”

Death Mother Hate Fear Loss Grief Motherhood

Author:Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein

Source: Incidental Inventions

“My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.”

Children Mother Love Is My Children Family Oriented

Author:Richard Rogers

“My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.”

Mother Involved Workers California Farms Behalf Migrants Chavez

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.”

Long Mother Family Grew Involved Grew Up Losing Connections Connected Dialogue Feeding Back And Forth Cords Umbilical Cord

Author:Howard Stern

“My mother was very protective of her four boys.”

Mother Boys Four Protective

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.”

Mother Father Strong Taught Very Strong Coconuts

Author:Alice Walker

“My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.”

Mother Mentor Sympathetic

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.”

Mother Church Grew Grew Up Sunday Protestants Presbyterians

Author:Rob Corddry

“My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.”

Want Mother Sports Hurt Television Want Me

Author:George Foreman

“My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed. Any woman who could out-stubborn a dachshund deserved to be accorded the wary and respectful affection the dachshund gave her.”

Mothers Dachshunds

Author:Markham Shaw Pyle

“My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.”

Mother Situation Window Dementia

Author:Emma Donoghue

“My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.”

Believe I Can School Mother Gone Beach Scare Working A Lot

Author:Bo Derek

“My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.”

World Age Young Mother Class Childhood College Degrees Theatre Exposed Young Age College Degree Playwriting

Author:Valorie Curry

“My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil." I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. ...”

Love Sacrifice Strength Tris Veronica Roth Allegiant

Author:Veronica Roth

Source: Allegiant

“My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.”

Mother Approach Practicals

Author:Diane Keaton

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Lasts Mother Behavior Rational Last Year

Author:Lorna Luft

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.”

People World Mother Father Known Rich Streets Shots Around The World Touched Performers Testimony Street Performers

Author:R. Kelly

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