“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.” EarthMotherBornPaintingTastePainterMilkMilieu Author:Yves Klein
“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.” WantKindCountryLawMotherDiesLanguageImaginationNaturalLibertyAcceptingLike YouTasteEqualMarkTemplesRejectsGoddessEnteringStatuesTranslationsOwlForeign CountriesStewStatue Of LibertyNatural DeathHash Author:Randall Jarrell
“We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.” IfsChildrenEnoughMotherComfortTasteThirstOnly ChildPampering Author:Barbara Holland
“my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.” FactsMotherTasteInsult Author:Merrill Markoe
“As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.” WorldChildrenPersonsMotherTasteOppositesSurroundingsGlamourEpitomeTurner Author:Lee Radziwill