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“My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.”

Ifs Want Mind Self Use Able Mother Meditation Achieve Buddhism Self Improvement Enlightenment Down And Golf Calm Improvement Buddhist Assets

Author:Tiger Woods

“My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.”

Knows Kind Art Matter Mother Watches Genius Paper Let Me Theater All Kinds Silver Sunday Museums Plates Feeding Silver Platter

Author:Jill Scott

“My mother's a pretty warm, open person.”

Persons Mother Warm

Author:Adepero Oduye

“My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.”

Knows Form Mother Dad Medicine My Dad Lawyer Psychologist Therapists Prescriptions Prominent Stepmothers Stepfathers

Author:Zach Braff

“My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.”

Mother Father Company Secretary Mining Electrician Uranium Mining

Author:Eva Herzigova

“My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.”

Country Mother Father Sides Musician Western Singers Both Sides Bluegrass Country Western

Author:Brandi Carlile

“My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.”

Men Strong Feminist Very Strong Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.”

Thinking Mother Answers Information Hunger Thirst New Information

Author:Trevor Noah

“My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.”

Ifs Want Looks Mother Actors Boys Seeing Actresses Be Good

Author:J. Cole

“My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.”

World Art Mother Artist Father Growing Up Growing Seeing Normal Spending Around The World Our Time Art World Experiencing Things

Author:Bran Ferren

“My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.”

States Mother New York Backgrounds Scotland Scottish New York State

Author:Alan Hovhaness

“My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.”

Believe Mother Grew Married Grew Up Remarkable Believe In Love

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.”

Lasts Mother Father Forever Blood Brother My Brother Grandfather My Grandfather Ever After

Author:Alice Hoffman

“My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.”

Stills Today Mother Pie Scratches Blueberries

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.”

Heart Mother Values Humanity Lines Bottom Bottom Line

Author:Anita Roddick

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.”

Helping Mother Childhood Mines Brother Mark Unity Your Children Devoted Clearing

Author:Martin Schulz

“My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.”

Trying Stills Mother Careers Cameras Buddy Always Smile

Author:Carrie Fisher

“My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.”

Mind Mother Dad My Dad Blow

Author:Prefuse 73

“My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.”

Self Mother Term Pieces Accepted Savages

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.”

Mother Desert Fascinated

Author:Arizona Muse

“My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.”

Eye Mother Son Flower Brown My Son Frantic Hummingbirds

Author:Anne Lamott

“My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.”

Wells Mother Father Havens Areas West South British Indian Montana Dakota South Dakota West Indies

Author:Richie Havens

“My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.”

Years Mother Social Justice Issues Rights Style Catholic Social Justice Conservative Womens Rights Tribes Old Fashioned Baroque

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.”

Thinking Might Happens Mother Father Drink Unhappy Drank Neurotic

Author:John Hurt

“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”

War Kids Mother Father Literature Games Taught Ten Lays Ancient Bridges Rome Eleven English Literature Pedestrians Ancient Rome War Games

Author:Bernie Taupin

“My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.”

Men World Said Used Mother Father Alive Thousand Office Twenties Brave Hardest Posts Thirty Rising Easter Hardest Thing Brave Man Dublin Post Office

Author:Lawrence Block

Source: Out On The Cutting Edge

“My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.”

Persons Two Mother Five Feet Honest Scared Being Honest

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.”

Mother Father Towns African American Texas Small Town Nigeria

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.”

Inspirational Believe Mother Saws Genius Fingers

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.”

Ifs Two Hands Mother Girl Lines Education Learning Two Hands Nettles

Author:Fiona Wood

“My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.”

Looks Mother Doors Mom Majors Rip Being A Mom Closed Doors

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.”

People Joy Mother Laughing Making People Laugh

Author:Melissa Rivers

“My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.”

People Knows Would Be Joy Mother Wish Difficult Laughing Return Right Now Finals Making People Laugh

Author:Melissa Rivers

“My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.”

Ifs World Giving Said Ideas Mother Natural Wonderful Birth Contrary Makeup Rainbow Childbirth Unicorn Hyper Giving Birth Wonderful Places Without Makeup Natural Childbirth

Author:Robin Williams

“My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.”

Mother Pay Poverty Waste Sick Illness Treatment Protest Extravagance Inefficiency Commercialism

Author:Ellen Wilkinson

“My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].”

Thinking Trying Kids Mother Hurt Imagine Mom Tools Passing Passings Being There Passing Away Your Mom

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.”

Thinking Giving Years Persons Real Age Young Mother My Own Situation Dad Married Logic My Dad Logical Stability Young Age

Author:Brian Austin Green

“My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.”

Heart Long Character Pain Mother Literature Influence Discipline Taste Patient Resolve Accurate Chapters Molding

Author:John Ruskin

“My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking were not good. My mother was vivacious, she was full of life, she got up every morning looking forward to the day, trying to figure out what she could do that was innovative and unprecedented and maybe controversial.”

Trying Sometimes Mother Challenges Morning Influence Figures Consequence Every Morning Looking Forward Innovative Controversial Unprecedented New Challenges Vivacious

Author:Jimmy Carter

“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”

Children Mother House Built Kitchen Focal Point

Author:Gail Simmons

“My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.”

Lasts Mother Beats Iron Bells Last Words Funny Relationship

Author:Cheryl Strayed

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.”

Mother Destroyed Legends Garlands

Author:Lorna Luft

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“My mother's life was way too heavy for me.”

Way Mother Heavy

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.”

Hard Mother Justify Mother's Love

Author:Marc Chagall

“My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”

Joy Mother Force Compassion Seeing Integrity Daughter Our Family My Daughter Sustaining Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mother's Love

Author:Michelle Obama

“My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.”

Mother Genuine Attachment Make Me Happy Mother's Love Genuine Love

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.”

Looks Eye Mother Sadness Look At Me

Author:Mason Cooley

“My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.”

Would Be Mother Father Black Dad My Dad Indian Barbados Cherokee Creole Cherokee Indian

Author:Meagan Good

“My mother's my biggest supporter.”

Mother Supporter

Author:Vinny Guadagnino

“My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.”

Mother Titles Nicknames

Author:Patrick Schwarzenegger

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