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“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.”

Mother

Author:Martha Plimpton

“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.”

School Mother Father Company High School Firm Secretary Going To Work Printing Salesman Merchants Clerks Wool Stationary Bookkeepers

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.”

Thinking Mother Nuclear Traditional Good Mother Nuclear Families

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“My mother is a beauty.”

Mother

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.”

Mother Happened Becoming Best Things Becoming A Mother

Author:Paula Patton

“I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.”

World Mother Father Religious Army Chapel Religious Experience Presbyterians Episcopalians

Author:Sally Quinn

“I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.”

Mother Father My Own Progress Hospitals Journal Family And Friends Newsletters

Author:Brent Runyon

“I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Mother Girl Found Nice Very Happy Welsh

Author:Matthew Rhys

“If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.”

Ifs Mother Father Class Middle My Family Middle Class Mother And Father

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.”

People Mother Interesting Nice Sweet Casts Vulnerability Nice People

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.”

Two Film Mother Actors Father Saws Four Week Grandfather My Grandfather Begging

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.”

Seems Running Mother Order Bits Mercy Abuse Blame Addiction Granted Dry Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Mother Nature Burning Fossil Fuels Mercy And Forgiveness

Author:Gloria Reuben

“As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.”

Wells Children Home Mother Talking Issues Work Out Gender Partners Plenty Firm Gender Equality Stay At Home Live Every Day

Author:Hilary Rosen

“My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!”

Ends Mother Taught Clothes Trends

Author:Lela Rose

“The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.”

Mother Advice Cooking Kitchen Dishes Wisest

Author:Lela Rose

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.”

Said Kids Law Mother Guy Given Wife Love You One Day My Wife Compliment Airports In-laws Family Love Mother In Law Kids Love Wives Love

Author:Lionel Richie

“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Children Littles Might Mother Courses Huge Balance Advantage Tired Lifting Being A Mother

Author:Melanie Roach

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

Children Mother My Own Cases Saws Happened Example Particular News Response Mistreated

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.”

Giving Different School Mother

Author:Michael Reagan

“I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.”

Mother Father

Author:Nicole Richie

“There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.”

Thinking Humans Kind Use Mother Human Beings Mistake Understood All Kinds Labels

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.”

Giving Littles Dream Eye Mother Certain Evil Blood Crosses Always Believe Grandma Gypsy Evil Eye

Author:Sam Raimi

“You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.”

Knows Littles Stills Mother Brother Little Brother My Little Brother

Author:Sam Raimi

“My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.”

Made Mother Heard Traditional Islands Tunes Melody Adaptation Trademarks St Thomas

Author:Sonny Rollins

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

Long Has Beens Ends Reason Mother Parent Difficult Interest Successful Nice Happened Lucky Prove Long Time The End Of The Day Mum Long Time Ago Prove Myself Your Mum

Author:Stuart Rose

“I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.”

Mother Wish Understanding Wife Compassionate

Author:Alana Stewart

“My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.”

Wells Mother Father Ireland Scotland Somewhere Else Newark

Author:Ali Smith

“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.”

Needs Wells Children Important Care Mother Father Bits Parent Aging Bridges Parks Spouse Infrastructure Tunnels Broadband Aging Parents

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.”

Years Mother Father Born Mexico Lebanese

Author:Carlos Slim

“I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.”

Mother Suffering Goes On Grieving

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.”

Home Mother Animal Saved Abandoned Injured Needy

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“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

“I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.”

Mean Doe Remember Mother Growing Up Growing Streets Seven

Author:Karrine Steffans

“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.”

Knows Littles Real Happens Young Mother Father Black Born Boys Issues Heard Serious Dad Young Women Serious Issues Black Boy

Author:Karrine Steffans

“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.”

World Art Mother Father Listening Singing Our Family Spokes Listening To Music

Author:Kiki Smith

“My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.”

Mother Father Workers Garments Housewife

Author:Alan Sugar

“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”

Men Writing Character Mother Father Parent Nice Reader Gentle Supportive Colorful Nice Man

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.”

Years Wells Whole Mother Class Childhood Grew Grew Up Dancer Ballet Dance Class

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."”

Ifs Knows Said Mother Eight Mum God Knows No Hope God Knows Everything

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.”

Thinking Mind Wells Care Mother Father

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.”

Ifs Long Mother Middle Climate Tendencies Australia Consumption

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.”

Giving Mother Actors Four Week Summer Daughter Silly Nine Movie Turned Down Vancouver Silly Movie

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!”

Years Care Wanted Mother Difficult Growing Hair Years Ago Let Me Sticks Curls Perms

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.”

Problem Mother Sides Advice My Friends Mum

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.”

Mother Walking Secure Being A Mother

Author:Connie Stevens

“Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.”

Knows Men Want Doe Important Shows Bigs Mother Influence Daughter Important Things Priorities My Daughter Call Me Connecting Be A Man

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.”

Way Writing Inspiration Mother Knowing Doubt Wonderful Storyteller

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.”

Made Said Mother Daughter Made It My Daughter Tango

Author:Jamie Foxx

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