“If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.” IfsWantMotherGirlGoalBoysLaughingGrowing UpGrowingHairBecomingThirdsPursueParksChickensAlcoholicsLunaticArizonaTrailersPolitically CorrectSagaInspectorsThird TimeTrailer ParkCurly HairGirls Growing Up Author:Mel White
“I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.” IfsWantMeanChildrenMotherGirlBoysFiveMy Friends Author:Adele
“I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’” KnowsMadeSaidPlayMotherDesireHouseInterestingBoysMomGayDirectBaseballGrassSunlightFabricBugsSample Author:Nate Berkus
“My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.” SchoolLawYoungMotherFatherBoysMetsTownsGoldenBoatGermanyVillageSmall TownScholarshipLaw SchoolPrestigiousNyuGreenwichGreenwich VillageGolden Boy Author:Blake Bailey
“I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.” PeopleTwoKidsRememberMotherGirlNamesBoysBonesIndianBowsSixteenWalkersCatchyCherokeeAuntieCherokee Indian Author:T-Bone Walker
“With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.” StillsFacesMotherThreeHouseBehindsBoysMorningGrowing UpGrowingEarsCleanTeethRoutineWashingBrushingMorning Routines Author:Cam Newton
“When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.” ThinkingShouldMeanIdeasMotherGirlBoysMomFinding YourselfThink Twice Author:Sophia Loren
“One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.” WorldWarHomeMotherSongBoysSeeingFolksDestroyedWar Of The WorldsCivil WarBrownComing HomeCoveredBobWorld War IDylanAbolitionistFolk SongsJohn Brown Author:Quentin Tarantino
“When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.” PeopleSaidHomeRememberYoungMotherGirlChristBoysSan Francisco Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.” IfsWantGivingDoeSaidUseHomeWould BeMotherGirlNamesSpeakLanguageBoysClearTeacherLike YouAskingStrangerIntimacyLoudAppropriateInstructionClassroomNunInappropriateBoy And GirlNicknamesSpeak Now Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'” LooksMotherBoysBallsUniversityCoachesExpertsTexasLook At MePitchingUniversity Of Texas Author:Blake Jenner
“I lost my first fight at the Boys Club at 11 years old and quit the team. My mother told me I had to go back because she didn't raise no quitter. I lost a second fight and quit again and still my mother wouldn't let me. She made me go back and try again.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeStillsMotherFightingLostBoysTeamLet MeRaisesClubsQuittingTry AgainQuitter Author:Evander Holyfield
“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.” IfsWayFeelingsMotherThreeFatherStuffBoysCreativeBrotherCatholicSarcasticYellingCatholic FamilyFather And BrotherVery Sarcastic Author:Anthony Green