Best mother & grew-up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.”

Stills Ends Mother House Streets Grew Grew Up Corners Dead Ends

Author:Mink Stole

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

Children Two School Together Mother Fighting Father Levels Class Middle Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Seven Grades Middle Class Middle Class Family Two Sisters

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.”

Mother Speak Language Wish Grew Grew Up Spokes Italian Portuguese Spanish And English Speaking Spanish

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.”

Men Firsts Facts Home Mother Father Generations Grew Married Grew Up Latin Italian Latin America Latin American

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.”

People Littles Kids Together Mother Left Poor Boys Grew Dad Grew Up Foundation My Dad Cuba Little Boys Poor Family Happy Kid

Author:William Levy

“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”

Trying Littles Mother Father Grew Grew Up Died Busy Open Minded Father Died My Father Died

Author:Sonia Braga

“I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.”

Years Mother Poor Four Grew Grew Up Raised

Author:Robert Reich

“I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers”

Children Mother Memories Childhood Stage Grew Grew Up My Family Busy Screens My Children Performers My Sister Great Women

Author:John Travolta

“I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.”

World Mother Acting Grew Grew Up Theater Actresses Around The World

Author:Alicia Keys

“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.”

Years Littles Home Mother Left Term Secret Grew Grew Up Years Ago Extremes Bread Dirty Household Potatoes Cookies Rice Naughty Carbohydrates

Author:Ina Garten

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”

Mother Father House Grew Grew Up Jazz Opera

Author:Chaka Khan

“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825

“What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.”

Play Mother Found Happened Fields Grew Grew Up Smart Aspect Balls Legs

Author:Alexander Lowen

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.”

“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”

Way Mother Sound My Own Path Grew Findings Grew Up Daughter Filled Smoke My Way Kitchen Vegetables Recipes Impatience Vacuums Recollection Mother Daughter Tin Ovens Frying

Author:Patricia J. Williams

“I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!”

Long Enough Mother Car Grew Summer Grew Up Beach Islands Packs Long Island

Author:Marissa Jaret Winokur

“Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.”

Men Wells Littles Mother Turns Levels Known He Man Grew Grew Up Recalls

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Long Mother Parent Grew Dad Grew Up Distance My Dad Drivers Long Distance Birmingham Barbados Catering Lorry

Author:David Harewood

“My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.”

Believe Mean Mother Animal Dog Taught Grew Grew Up Cat Fishes Consideration Rats Snakes Spiders Wildlife Deserving Taught Us Cat And Dog

Author:Joanna Lumley

“I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.”

Bigs Christian Mother Church Grew Grew Up Sunday Exposure Choir Midwest

Author:Michael McMillian

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.”

Different Beautiful Mother Strong Opinion Grew Grew Up Supposed To Be Cute Very Strong Strong Women Beautiful Women

Author:Cher

“So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.”

Mother Father Names Grew Couple Mets Married Grew Up Moved Adopted Boston Elderly Maine Orphanage

Author:George J. Mitchell

“Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.”

Looks Mother Father Interest Careers Grew Grew Up Guides Grounded Mother And Father

Author:Larenz Tate

“God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.”

Men Mother Family Grew Grew Up Forgiving God Forgives

Author:Brendan Behan

“As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.”

Way Wanted Mother Reading Five Grew Involved Grew Up Hundred Dollars Cynical Vague Twists Enthusiastic Charlatans

Book:Green Darkness

Source: Green Darkness

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