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“My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.”

Children Ideas Done Mother Father Sacrifice Married

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.”

America Mother Opportunity Wish Promise Cradle

Author:Masiela Lusha

“My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.”

Writing Different Mother Passion Poor Destiny Fate Shapes Daughter Farmers Dirt

Author:Faye Dunaway

Source: Looking for Gatsby

“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.”

People Mother Given Imagination Growing Up Growing Emotional Tough South Tension Touched Agreement Courageous Bullshit My Imagination Captured Charisma Eccentricity Quota Histrionic

Author:Willie Morris

“My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”

People Mother Anger Psychologist Anger Inside

Author:Meg Cabot

“My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.”

Kind Mother Night Father Sides Dinner Sunday Italian Cousin My Cousin Sunday Night

Author:Lea Michele

“My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.”

Feels Mother Sides Growing Up Growing And Off Bahamas

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.”

“My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.”

Shows Mother Sides Productions Theatre Managers Grandfather Broadway My Grandfather Vegas General Manager

Author:Yancy Butler

“My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.”

Mother Car Six Raised Males Eight Accidents My Sister Cousin Car Accident Trolleys

Author:Alan King

“My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.”

Persons Stills Mother Song Force Tragedy Incredibles Legacy Fortunate Sensibility Masterpiece

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.”

Years Firsts School Mother Father Study Taught Duty Involved My Family Thirds Primaries Aggravation Primary School

Author:Emma Bonino

“My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.”

Way Remember Mother Attention Drug Anxiety Suicide Reactions Release

Author:Lorna Luft

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent.”

Persons Mother Parent Special Valuable Mvp

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.”

Knows Feels Children Mother Special Strange Spots

Author:Jack White

“My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.”

People Firsts Mother Names Differences Proud Angry Making A Difference Call Me Marie Hollies

Author:Holly Marie Combs

“My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.”

Knows Mother White Know How Hair Mama

Author:Jami Floyd

“My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.”

Whole Mother New York Grew Grew Up Hollywood Theater Fabulous Exotic Whole Family

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.”

Mother Wonderful Mom Perfection Excellence

Author:Michael Jackson

“My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.”

Ifs World Way Book Mother Found Attitude Lessons Ethics Customers Treated Work Ethic

Author:Bill Capodagli

“My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.”

Looks Mean Has Beens Mother Difficult Share Influence Emotional Photograph Enormous Compare Intensity

Author:Amy Arbus

“My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.”

Way Should Firsts Humans Two Use Mother Father Human Beings Creativity Teacher Taught Doctors Treated Two Things Physicians Mississippi Pressured

Author:Greg Iles

“My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.”

People Men Made Mother Gone Taught Men And Women Garden Dust Abra

Author:Alice Hoffman

Source: Incantation

“My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.”

Mother Father Literature Mad Newspapers Our Family Treatment Workout Subscription

Author:Charles Kuralt

“My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.”

Thinking Way Joy Mother Half Glasses Contradictory Zest Half Full

Author:Sherry Lansing

“My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.”

Men Whole Mother Lost Black Decided Brave Whole Family Brave Women

Author:Lisa Bonet

“My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.”

Mother Actors Father Taken Actresses Singers Recollection

Author:David Cassidy

“My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.”

Ifs Way Feelings Mother Three Father Stuff Boys Creative Brother Catholic Sarcastic Yelling Catholic Family Father And Brother Very Sarcastic

Author:Anthony Green

“My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.”

Mother Father Friendship Five Died Cancer Survived My Best Friend Terminal Surrogates Stepmothers Terminal Cancer

Author:Arabella Weir

“My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.”

Used Mother Stuff Example Meals Breasts Chickens Chests Officers Knives Belts Rice Sabbath

Author:Etgar Keret

“My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.”

Years Humans Lasts Mother Rights Human Rights Activist Marxist

Author:Joely Richardson

“My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste.”

Different Mother Share Style Taste Grandmother Different Styles Mother Grandmother

Author:Margherita Missoni

“My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick”

Hard Mother Talent Dad Tools Cooking My Dad Kitchen Grandmother Belts Chicks Garage Older Sister Mother Grandmother

Author:Cheryl Ladd

“My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.”

Want Care Mother Enjoy Audience Fans Target I Care Target Audience

Author:John Legend

“My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em”

Made Mother Hate Father Wish I Hate Ems Thank God

Author:DMX

“My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken stock or pasta sauces. She always made her own homemade pasta. So, the amount of dedication that goes into what these people used to do - it was a long time ago but you come to appreciate the hard work and the care about little things.”

People Littles Long Made Hard Use Care Used Mother Week Hard Work Amount Long Time Appreciate Sunday Chickens Little Things Dedication Long Time Ago Sauce Pasta Homemade

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw”

Two Shows Mother Three Poor Saws Week Fishes Show Me Beaten Three Times Saddest Want To Be Happy

Author:Charles Bukowski

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.”

Mother Religion Religious Proud Storm Motherhood Bridges Sturdy

Author:Carolyn Rodgers

“My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Mind Believe Mother Proud Please Praise Bother Say Anything Proud Of Me

Author:Victoria Wood

“My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.”

Facts Used Mother Attitude Five Week Months Grateful Very Good Eight Christmas Pounds Good Attitude Christmas Present

Author:Gemma Arterton

“My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.”

Beautiful Mother Father Tree Bird Bones My Sister Tied Tweet Scarves Grimm

Author:Jacob Grimm

“My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.”

Years School Beautiful Mother Daughter Meals Decent My Daughter Beautiful Things Private School

Author:Obie Trice

“My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.”

Knows Able Wanted Mother Turns Talking Planets Hair Swim Jupiter

Author:Patrick Monahan

“My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.”

Mother

Author:Nicole Sullivan

“My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.”

People Mother Opportunity Speak Language Failing Everyday Portuguese

Author:Tamlyn Tomita

“My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled”

Mother Father Window Gamer

Author:Tom Berenger

“My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.”

Mother Night Literature Easy Heard Died Raised Bones Southern Daddy Mama Hog

Author:Pat Conroy

Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.”

Firsts Said Body Mother Boys Pieces Tree Female Favors Familiar Insult Silver Offense Trunks Banging Female Body

Author:Melina Marchetta

Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles

“My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.”

Giving Littles Enough Would Be Kids Mother Night Found Poor Rooms Doors Every Night Begging Poor Family Hobos

Author:Kirk Douglas

“My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she never went back to some kind of work 'cause that was a very responsible position.”

Kind Mother Causes Position Responsible Chiefs Boston Cashiers

Author:Nat Hentoff

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