My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
Stories always seem to get better with age.
Better be alone than in bad company.
You don't get older, you get better.
It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
The devil always has the better tunes!
I'm a better polemicist in prose.
No place is better than Akron.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
