“My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.” FirstsMotherAreasIndependentWesternDriversMassachusetts Author:Julia Child
“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.” WellsMotherFatherHavensAreasWestSouthBritishIndianMontanaDakotaSouth DakotaWest Indies Author:Richie Havens
“I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.” IfsThinkingHas BeensMotherLanguageNaturalCareersTeachAreasChosenPerformersFascinatedGenesGrandfatherInheritanceLinguistics Author:George Carlin
“Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.” KnowsFeelsChildrenDoneFactsSeemsJobsMotherTeacherSpecialFieldsAuthorityAreasCompetitionSubtleCompetenceExpertiseBetter Jobs Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools
“La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."” WorldWantHeartKindRealFilmMotherGirlBehindsDangerousAreasGlassesIronyMy TimeSarcasmFree WillReal WorldThank GodMexicoCagesProstitutionOutlaw Author:Michael Glawogger
“I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.” PeopleWayStoriesMotherTvsEuropeAreasEntertainmentPeasants Author:Jack Kirby
“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.” YearsKidsMotherThreeWhiteClassFiveNiceChildhoodMiddleBrotherDadAreasSevenMy DadActiveMy BrotherMiddle ClassExhaustedSeven YearsAttorneyHousewifeHappy ChildhoodIdyllicUpper Middle ClassThree Sisters Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.” PeopleMenNeedsHas BeensGovernmentEarthPastMotherVisionBrotherGainsAreasConcernHarmonyFellowsMedicineDemocraticCreatorFellow ManMother EarthDemocratic Government Author:Leonard Peltier
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you... I don't call them chick flicks.” WantedMotherTeacherHonestDirectorsAreasDirectMalesBlowBeing HonestChicksChick FlickDance Teacher Author:Garry Marshall
“As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantSaidReasonWould BeKidsSchoolMotherStreetsInformationAreasWant MeGravityBeatenPulp Author:Paul Laffoley
“Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.” TryingHomeMotherHouseMomAreasWarmKitchenItalianMagnificentBucksStretchingGood FoodDecoratingBeautification Author:Rachael Ray
“Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.” KnowsLittlesHandsSchoolMotherSufferingForceCasesDegreesAreasDoctorsEndureRidiculousTherapySensitiveShockedMisguidedArtemisArtemis FowlCounsellors Author:Eoin Colfer
“Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.” MenMotherPassionFatherSubjectsCommitmentAreasFollowingThoughtfulBuyingAwkwardElectricClueHis LoveBlanketExhibitsFathers DayReferringTokensVery ThoughtfulElectric Blankets Author:Dave Barry
“I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.” MotherFatherWhitePoorRichLandUnderstoodAreasMy FamilyFolksGeorgiaColumbus Author:John Henrik Clarke