“I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.” Has BeensAbleMotherTelevisionSummerRiversWindowVery GoodEastApartment Author:Susan Sullivan
“I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.” ShowsMotherTelevisionSingingDancingLucyCarolsSinging And DancingTelevision Watching Author:Debra Messing
“The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.” NeedsChildrenMotherTelevisionMy ChildrenBowsClownPuppets Author:Elinor Smith
“I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.” MotherTelevisionCastsCompassionate Author:Michael Learned
“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.” ChildrenHappensMotherGrowing UpGrowingMinutesTelevisionDramaMountainBunchDancerVillageEstatesGreyHousingSwissSingle MotherBollywoodChildren Growing UpYorkshireGrowing ChildrenSari Author:Simon Beaufoy
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.” ChildrenAgeTodayMotherHateReadingTermTechnologyTelevisionI HateErasLeisureConsumedScarceDefaultLeisure Time Author:Jimmy Buffett
“I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.” PeopleThinkingMenFeelsMadeMotherTelevisionSaintNewspapersMagazinesGood ManRighteousPersonal LifePedestalTeresaRighteous Man Author:Billy Graham
“If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.” IfsShouldBelieveLooksRealShowsMotherFallCoursesCareersSuccessfulTelevisionReal LifeBeing RealAccurateGorgeousTelevision ShowsDepictionCareer Women Author:Debora Spar
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.” FirstsPersonsYoungMotherGuyFrontsTelevisionSittingDrinkingBeerShirtsT ShirtDrinking BeerYoung Guys Author:William S. Burroughs
“If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.” IfsThinkingMenProblemRealityMotherTurnsCausesSimpleCommonTelevisionSonBearsTerriblePainfulObviousCriminalsInnocentPsychologicalDenialTurn-onBearable Author:Charlie Munger
“My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.” IfsMotherDiesTalentFrontsTelevisionQuittingFatsAlways BelieveGift From GodI QuitJust Live Author:Johnny Cash
“I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.” ShowsWantedUsedMotherWatchesTelevisionQueensBeing A Mother Author:Stevie Wonder