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“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.”

Feels Littles Said Kids Mother Odd

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

Ifs Want Years Said Stories Age Remember Mother Simple Rooms Fronts Tvs Mom Conversation My Mom Watching Tv

Author:Derek Luke

“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.”

Said Hard Wanted Young Mother Father Teacher Actresses Supportive

Author:Archie Panjabi

“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

“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

“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

“This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.”

Heart Said Mother Found Secret Baby My Heart Ugly Broke Broke My Heart

Author:John Stamos

“My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.”

Said Mother Chance Player Football Tennis Football Player Tennis Player

Author:Marat Safin

“Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.”

Thinking Said Play Mother Interesting Roles Exciting Deeper Teenager

Author:Naomi Watts

“My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.”

Said Wanted Mother Father Tradition Scholar Family Tradition

Author:Norman Lamm

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Made Said Stills Running Wanted Mother Night Hurt Broken Fine Injury Toes Lap I Was Hurt

Author:Ronda Rousey

“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.”

Made Said Real Mother Black Justice Audience Talent Hollywood Musical Offensive Stereotype All Black Real Talent

Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

“When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?”

Said Earth Mother Gay Married

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

Knows Said Humor Funny Mother Father Birth Easier Hundred Dollars Father Son

Author:Rita Rudner

“Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.”

Children Said Mother Hate Love Is Middle Israel East Ministers Prime Middle East Prime Minister Behalf Only Love

Author:Nonie Darwish

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”

Men Said Law Mother He Man Died Expenses Funeral In-laws Mother In Law Drawbacks

Author:St. Jerome

“Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.”

People Knows May Said Law Mother Guy Enemy Okay Sake Careful Barack Be Careful This Guy In-laws Taliban Negotiating Mother In Law

Author:David Letterman

“We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.”

World Said Book Soul Beautiful Mother Fields Flower Pure Quests Weary Sage Seekers

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.”

Thinking Said Mother Love Is Compassion Symbols Love And Compassion Lama Disinterested Mother's Love Dalai Disinterest Disinterested Love

Author:Richard Gere

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Doe Has Beens Said Stills Two Stories Light Mother Night Hate Father Names Voice This World Changed Son Honor Equal Daughter Devil Celebrate Mourning What If Funk

Author:Bootsy Collins

“I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.”

World Way Said Would Be Mother Order Social Liberty Saws Groups Fit Daughter Organization Bases Favors Opposition Neighborhood Cooperation Anarchist Social Organization

Author:Karl Hess

“My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?”

Knows Said Two Mother Dear Two Things Honey Sandwiches

Author:Bill Bryson

“No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !”

World Giving Children Persons Has Beens Said Mother Artist Given Grows Successful Creation Chiefs Who We Are Masterpiece Success Is Measured

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.”

Has Beens Said Stills Stories Mother Alive Chickens Plato Pupils

Author:Plato

“I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."”

Wells Said Beautiful Mother Land Poet Waste Prize Significance Schemes Nobel Nobel Prize Great Poet Prerogative Waste Land Overcoat

Author:Alan Bennett

“Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.”

Said Mother Democracy Son International Revenge Newspapers Video Remarks Captured Best Revenge Bhutto

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.”

Said Mother Voice Needed Bed Glad

Author:Julie Andrews

“My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.”

Said Mother Answers Hard Work Harder Work Harder

Author:Halle Berry

“As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.”

Said Mother Girl Bigger Other Girl Ale

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?"”

Said Mother Next Waiting Morning Nice Prize Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Steven Chu

“My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Said Mother Girl Heard Kings Window Rounds Seconds Lunch Skirts Chelsea Arses

Author:Michael Caine

“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”

Thinking Kind Said Remember Mother Causes Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Upset Grandma Femme Ladylike

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.”

Men Way Said Sometimes Mother Deals Brain Equal Best Way Smarter Mules

Book:The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

“I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.”

People Said Wanted Mother Father Company Class Five Teacher Yeah Performers Insurance Companies Dance Class

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.”

Ifs Mean Said Remember Mother Heaven Sin Golden Golden Rule

Author:Hal David

“A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"”

Children Long Said Done Wanted Mother Realizing Months Long Time Angry Visiting

Author:Mark Jason Dominus

“A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.”

Has Beens Said Mother Flattering Single Mother

Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women, that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.”

People Want Said Mother Careers Havens Female Pressure Focused Driven Selfish

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.”

Knows Years Said I Can Home Age Remember Mother Left Parent Kitchen Restaurants Chef Apprenticeship Home Home

Author:Jacques Pepin

“In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'”

Made Said Kids Mother Three President Written Mom Letters Yesterday Thanks President Obama Celebration Mothers Day Necklaces Macaroni

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'”

Said Mother President Wife Impossible Painting Hair Paint Former Interviews Hobbies President George W Bush

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Jeb Bush's brother Neil said that their mother has 'come around' to the idea of Jeb running for president in 2016. Because if there's anything that says you're qualified to be president, it's your own mom saying, 'I guess you could do it.'”

Ifs Said Ideas Running Mother President Brother Mom Qualified

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'”

Ifs Believe Said Play Wanted Mother Can Do Millions Son Balls Dollars You Can Do It If You Believe Million Dollars Believe You Can

Author:Chris Gardner

“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”

Ifs Men Years Mean Has Beens Said Jobs Mother Literature Gone College Summer Old Man Flash Juniors August Junior Year

Author:Chris Matthews

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

Said Kids Mother Fighting Let Me Aggressive Household

Author:Mike Tyson

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