“My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.” WantChildrenWantedMotherCrazyFashionBrotherMarriedIndependentMy BrotherWant MeBeing MarriedMarried With ChildrenCrazy LifeFashion Business Author:Donatella Versace
“As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.” WantChildrenWantedMotherMy OwnFourOur ChildrenFrance Author:Segolene Royal
“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.” KindHomeRunningWantedSchoolMotherOrderFatherSocialMusicianSmartDoctorsWorkersExpectedLawyerDisappointedRunning AwayAcademicSocial WorkerAway From HomeInspectors Author:Hugh Masekela
“I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.” Has BeensWantedMotherBloodDoctorsFlightSubstanceLaboratoryDoctor WhoBanned Author:Alberto Tomba
“My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.” LightWantedMotherTeacherBrotherDadDecidedArmyMy DadTraditionalMy BrotherUnconditional LoveEngineersMumUnconditionalHousewifeBoxers Author:Anthony Browne
“My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'” WantLooksWantedMotherChurchLordNicePraiseDressesWineHeyCrackersPraise The Lord Author:Warren Hutcherson
“My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.” WayWantedRememberMotherFatherPoorDoctorsMathFunny ThingsGeorgiaPoor Family Author:Herbie Hancock
“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.” PeopleWantFeelsMayPersonsDifferentFeelingsWantedLyingMotherDifferencesClearTheoryShameGuiltGuiltyAshamedWrongLied Author:Lewis B. Smedes
“it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible” LoveWantedMotherGirlImpossibleShoesOddBergmanImpossible Love Author:Gregory Corso
“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.” WayWantedMotherReadingFiveGrewInvolvedGrew UpHundredDollarsCynicalVagueTwistsEnthusiasticCharlatans Book:Green Darkness Source: Green Darkness
“Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.” HumansKindPersonsWantedMotherCausesComedyInformationWretchedFertilizer Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.” SaidStatesFactsKidsWantedMotherGivenPayMoralityTaxesFlorida Author:Rosie O'Donnell