The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes
MotherTyrantsMob
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
A. R. Rahman
FatherMotherMusicMoneyChildOut
My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.
Jerry Hall
SuccessFatherMotherMoneyMeBack
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Chuck D
FatherMotherWisePeopleMilitary
My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.
Johnathon Schaech
WorkFatherMotherHomeDaySurvive
My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.
Peter Scolari
SuccessGoodMotherMeBadSaid
From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.
Robin Wright
MotherWomenBusinessTimeFirst
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
Rakim
MotherNightJazzSheOperaApollo
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
Liza Minnelli
FatherMotherArtistMuchStrung
Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.
India Arie
MotherMusicTogetherDoneDetroit
In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.
David Shields
FearFatherMotherHistoryMeHim
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
Maya Angelou
MotherCookingMePorkLikeRoast
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
Asia Argento
WorkGoodMotherQueenPeopleMe
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.
Steven Seagal
LoveFatherMotherWrongMeetNever
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Yoko Ono
EducationMotherMusicSchoolMe
I loved my mother, but I don't like her.
Mickey Rourke
MotherLovedHerLike
I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
Malala Yousafzai
LoveMotherHatePeopleMeRemember
My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
Dixie Carter
MotherWordsTolerateAny
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
Edith Stein
MotherRelationshipWifeWomanWhom
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
Johann Lamont
MotherGodStrongSightEqualSense
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
Cicely Tyson
MotherLiveMeYouWrongSaid
I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.
Merritt Wever
EducationMotherGreatNew YorkCity
My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.
Petra Collins
MotherGreatPainGrowing UpGrowing
My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance... It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, 'I don't know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,' at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.
Rodney Crowell
MotherPassionGreatTimeMeStart
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