Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
Kary Mullis
FamilyMotherFarmGrandfatherOver
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
Dorothea Benton Frank
FamilyMotherMoneyWritingRest
Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.
Melissa McCarthy
MotherThinkThoughtWeddingLady
I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.
Anthony Ray Hinton
LoveMotherFoodChildMeWorld
I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.
Stella McCartney
MotherSadWordsHusbandKnowMeet
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Mary Wesley
MotherChildrenLearnCountryNever
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
Olivier Theyskens
MotherGreatFashionLovedAesthetic
I was raised by a single mother.
Josh Peck
MotherSingleI Was RaisedRaised
I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
Felicity Jones
MotherMyselfThinkPushTrying
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
Jidenna
MotherColorAmericaWhiteNever
When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
Condola Rashad
MotherMeWorldFeelRememberBorn
I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.
Andy Kaufman
MotherHouseEatEverythingWhatever
According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.
Preston Sturges
MotherTimeChildBirthSheHeavy
I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.
Tony Evans
FatherMotherChildrenConflictSeem
My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits. At home, I would paint pictures in a similar style.
Takashi Murakami
FatherMotherHomeStyleParentsMe
When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
Luke Rhinehart
MotherManFunHellYoungPersonal
I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
Kat Graham
MotherHollywoodI Was RaisedRaised
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.
Dorothy Hamill
GoodMotherRelationshipPerfection
As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.
Andie MacDowell
FamilyStrengthMotherTodayI Am
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
Antonia Fraser
EducationMotherWomenWomanDoctor
I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell through. I then discovered I was pregnant and opted to have the child on my own. I was a professor. I was in my mid-30s. I could manage it financially.
Stephanie Coontz
LifeMotherChildWeddingKindOwn
I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.
Masi Oka
EducationMotherBetterYouShe
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
Natalie Babbitt
MotherMoneyChildhoodHappySister
My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
Jared Leto
MotherRespectSmartSheHerself
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